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- Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
1: ...em 0; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" style="float: right;" width=...
2: |+ <big>'''Pluto'''</big>
4: ...lspan="2" align="center"| [[image:Pluto.jpg|250px|Pluto in True Color]]
5: .../><small><font color="white">'''Brightness map of Pluto'''</font></small>
120: ...egarding whether Pluto should be classified as a planet (see below for details). Its symbol is a combi...
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- Bee (11175 bytes)
3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = pink}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Insecta]]}}
10: {{Taxobox_end_placement}}
25: ...t|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
27: ... role in [[pollination|pollinating]] [[flowering plant]]s, and are called [[pollinator]]s. Bees have a... - Igneous rock (11419 bytes)
1: .... Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...crust]]. The word "igneous" is derived from the [[Latin]] ''ignis'', meaning "fire".
6: ...t|oceans]]. It is made up of rocks which have a relatively low density, and beneath the crust there is...
8: ...res ([[fractional crystallization]]). There are relatively few minerals which are important in the for...
10: ...rth's surface by a relatively thin but widespread layer of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. - Earth (30908 bytes)
1: {{Planet Infobox/Earth}}
7: ...rn science]] confirms as harboring [[life]]. The planet [[Age of the Earth|formed]] around 4.57 [[bill...
14: ...10,911 m below sea level). Thus the Earth is an oblate spheroid within a [[tolerance (engineering)|tol...
17: ...r of Earth, like that of the other [[terrestrial planets]], is chemically divided into an outer [[sili...
55: ...th reaches temperatures of 5270 [[kelvin]]s. The planet's internal heat was originally generated durin... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest lik...
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
34: ... BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
52: * [[Glass]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]] - Solar system (21174 bytes)
1: ...h]] is the third planet of the Solar System. ''[[Planetary system]]s'' are a more generic term for [[s...
3: ==Planets In the Solar System==
5: The wide variety of objects that exist in the Solar System fall into several categories. In recent y...
7: ...(☉) is a [[Stellar_classification|spectral class]] G2 [[star]] that contains 99.86% of the syste...
8: ... Solar System are those nine bodies traditionally labelled as such: - Comet (30542 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hale-Bopp-large.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Comet Hale-Bopp]], showing a...
3: ...scribed as "dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] an...
5: ...but very old comets which have lost all their [[volatile]] materials may come to resemble asteroids.
9: ... generally less than 50km across, the coma may be larger than the Sun, and the tails can extend over 1...
11: ...]], which records the [[Norman conquest]] of [[England]] in [[1066]].{{hnote|Reading Museum, scene 1}} - Planet (8450 bytes)
1: ...it around other stars, the problem of defining a planet has become rather more acute.
3: ...r disk before the star's core ignited and its [[solar wind]] blew remaining material away.
5: ==Within the solar system==
6: :''Main article: [[Solar system]]''.
7: ...ts and their features is known as planetary nomenclature. - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...4]]–[[1975|75]]); only 40–45% of the planet has been mapped.
3: ...[[caduceus]]. Before the [[5th century BC]], the planet Mercury actually had two names, as it was not ...
5: The Chinese and Japanese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Water Star'', based on the [[Five Ele...
8: .../www.answers.com/topic/mercury-in-roman-religion-planet-nearest-to-the-sun answers.com])
10: ...ries by only about 11 K (with respect only to [[solar radiation]]; not [[climate]] or [[season]]). The... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ...]], Venus's orbit is the closest to [[circle|circular]], with an [[eccentricity (orbit)|eccentricity]]...
7: ...ally incorrect. The true adjective coming from [[Latin]], ''[[Wiktionary:Venereal|Venereal]]'', is av...
9: ...Korean]], and [[Japan]]ese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Metal Star'', based on the [[Five Ele...
14: ... km/h). Winds in the upper atmosphere circle the planet in only 4 days, helping to distribute the heat...
16: ...ite is actually true. The cloud cover keeps the planet much cooler than it would be otherwise. The i... - Mars (27704 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mars.jpg|thumb|right|Mars, with polar ice caps visible.]]
2: ...rs NPArea-PIA00161 modest.jpg|thumb|right|North Polar region with icecap. (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.)...
4: ...This feature also earned it the name of "the Red Planet." Mars has two [[Natural satellite|moon]]s ([[...
8: ... dry land because Mars lacks [[ocean]]s). The [[solar day]] on Mars is almost the same length as it is...
13: ... become uniformly distributed in the atmosphere. Plans are now being made to look for other 'companion... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
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53: ...4 km]] [http://www.onasch.de/astro/showobject.php?lang=en&obj=p05]<br>(11.209 Earths)
55: ! align="left" | [[geographical pole|Polar]] [[diameter]]
58: ! align="left" | [[Oblateness]]
138: ...alled Jove). The [[astronomical symbol]] for the planet is a stylized representation of the god's ligh... - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
1: ...ht style="margin:0 0 .5em 1em; border-collapse:collapse;" width=280px;
4: ...0" | [[Image:Saturn (planet) large.jpg|250px|The planet Saturn]]<br> <small><font color="white">Click ...
53: ...6 km]] [http://www.onasch.de/astro/showobject.php?lang=en&head=f&anim=129&obj=p06]<br>(9.449 Earths)
55: ! align="left" | [[geographical pole|Polar]] diameter
58: ! align="left" | [[Oblateness]] - Uranus (15207 bytes)
1: ...em 0; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" style="float:right;" width=2...
4: ... bgcolor="#000000"| [[Image:Uranus.jpg|250px|The planet Uranus]]<br>
64: !align="left"| [[geographical pole|Polar]] diameter
67: !align="left"| [[Oblateness]]
145: ...ogy)|Ouranos]], and is the only planet in the [[solar system]] named after a Greek god: all others are... - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
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4: | align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="black" | [[image:neptune.jpg|250px|Neptune from Voyag...
61: ...8]] km [http://www.onasch.de/astro/showobject.php?lang=en&head=f&anim=129&obj=p08]<br>(3.883 Earths)
63: ! align="left" | [[geographical pole|Polar]] diameter
66: ! align="left" | [[Oblateness]] - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
1: ...em 0; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" style="float: right;" width=...
2: |+ <big>'''Pluto'''</big>
4: ...lspan="2" align="center"| [[image:Pluto.jpg|250px|Pluto in True Color]]
5: .../><small><font color="white">'''Brightness map of Pluto'''</font></small>
120: ...egarding whether Pluto should be classified as a planet (see below for details). Its symbol is a combi... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
7: *[[1687]] - Explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]], searching for the mouth of the [[Mississ...
9: ...1]] - The [[First Taranaki War]] ends in [[New Zealand]].
10: ...ville]] begins. By the end of the battle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated from [[G...
12: ...for the first time but was not recognized as a [[planet]].
13: ...merican planes take off in pursuit of [[Pancho Villa]], the first [[United States]] air-combat mission... - Plutonium (24623 bytes)
5: ...pan="2" align="center" | [[neptunium]] – '''plutonium''' – [[americium]]
14: ...n="2" align=center bgcolor="ff99cc"|<font color="black">'''General'''</font>
17: | Plutonium, Pu, 94
30: ...|125px|Gloved hands holding a "button" of refined plutonium]]
32: ... align="center" bgcolor="#ff99cc" | <font color="black">'''Atomic properties'''</font> - Scorpius (3888 bytes)
2: ...[[Sagittarius]] to the east. It is a large constellation located in the southern hemisphere near the c...
6: ...lta; Sco), [[Sargas]] (θ Sco), [[Shaula]] (λ Sco), [[Jabbah]] (ν Sco), [[Grafias]] (&x...
10: ... cluster]]s [[Globular Cluster M4|M4]] and [[Globular Cluster M80|M80]].
14: ...n this myth, the constellation of [[Orion (constellation)|Orion]] is almost opposite to Scorpius in th...
16: ...n the night sky. However, the scorpion was also placed up there, and every time it appears on the hor... - Gemini (3325 bytes)
2: ...n)|Auriga]] and the near-invisible [[Lynx (constellation)|Lynx]] to the north and [[Monoceros]] and [[...
6: ... - only one, Alhena (γ) is ever seen from a large city - and trace out a rectangle to the southe...
8: ...to (planet)|Pluto]] was discovered in this constellation in [[1930]], near the star Wasat (δ Gem...
12: ...a; Geminorum, near the western edge of the constellation.
15: Since this constellation is easily viewable as two parallel stick figu...
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