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What is a Planet?
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What is a Planet?

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Topic:

Grade Level: 9-12

Body: Our Solar System, Asteroids, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud

Mission: New Horizons (Dwarf Planets)

Science Education Standards: History and Nature of Science, Standard G: Nature of science

Short Description: Students learn about the characteristics of planets, comets, asteroids, and trans-Neptunian objects through a classification activity. Students can then apply what they have learned by participating in a formal debate about a solar system object discovered by the New Horizons spacecraft and by defining the term "planet."

Source: New Horizons


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