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Prof. Jon Satko

ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY: THE SOLAR SYSTEM

LAB for Astronomy 101

Go to the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html.

On the Index, you will find the middle category, “Solar System,” which includes such links as “Sun,” “Mercury,” etc.

Find THREE objects from among these links; read about them, and then write three interesting facts that you learned about each one.