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Cosmic Survey

Cosmic Survey. On your table is a group of cosmic items. Someone at your table needs to cut them out. You as a table group are then going to decide what order they go in for each category! Fill in your worksheet! We will then see which table is the closest!. Cosmic Survey.

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Cosmic Survey

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  1. Cosmic Survey • On your table is a group of cosmic items. • Someone at your table needs to cut them out. • You as a table group are then going to decide what order they go in for each category! • Fill in your worksheet! • We will then see which table is the closest!

  2. Cosmic Survey What do you and your group think?

  3. How Big? • Telescope 40 feet long • Moon 2 thousand miles diameter • Saturn 75 thousand miles diameter • Sun 875 thousand miles diameter • Pleiades 60 trillion miles across the cluster • Galaxy 600 thousand trillion miles across • Hubble galaxies 600 million trillion miles across the cluster

  4. How Far? • Telescope 350 miles above surface of Earth • Moon 250 thousand miles • Sun 93 million miles • Saturn 790 million miles (at its closest) • Pleiades 2400 trillion miles • Galaxy 200 million trillion miles • Hubble view of galaxies 30 billion trillion miles

  5. How Old? Relatively Speaking! • Telescope a few years (1990) • Pleiades 80 million years • Moon ~4.5 billion years • Saturn ~4.5 billion years • Sun ~4.5 billion years • Galaxy ~10 billion years? • Hubble galaxies ~10 billion years?

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