Our Trip to Outer Space

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Our Trip to Outer Space

• By Laurice Artap, Danielle Dela Cruz, Eric
  Fragola, and Lee Semien

4th Quarter Project
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Astronomical Units AU

• 1 astronomical unit 149,598,000,000
• Approximately the mean distance between the earth
  and the sun
• It is used to measure the distances within the
  solar system

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Light Years

• A unit of distance that light can travel in 1
  year
• In 1 year it travels about 10 trillion km.

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The tenth Planet Lila

• Was discovered by Michael Brown, Chad Trujillo,
  and David Rabinowitz in 2003
• Almost 10 billion miles away from the sun
• Has a diameter bigger than 2,302 kilometers
• Very similar to the planet Pluto, but its surface
  is almost completely white.

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Alpha Centuari
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70 Virginis B (Goldilocks)

• Discovered in 1996 by Marcy Butler
• The orbital radius is .488 AU
• The mean average temperature is 85 degrees
  Celsius
• Its 59 light years away from our solar system.
• Sidereel period is 116.7 earth days.

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Super Earth

• Super earth is 14x the size of Earth and also 14x
  its weight
• Although it is far too cold (-330) it is the most
  promising planet to support life.
• Has the same chemical make-up as Earth.
• It was discovered by using microlensing
• It is 50 light years away our solar system