Models of the Solar System

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• What is the current model of our solar system?
• What is the problem with a solar system model of the atom?
• What is the scale of the sun in relation to Pluto?
• How big are the stars, moon, and planets compared to Earth?
• What are Milankovitch cycles?
• How do the Milankovitch cycles affect climate change?
• Which object would orbit Earth in both the Earth-centered and sun-centered models of the solar system?
• If the earth were the size of a tennis ball how big would the sun be and how far apart?
• How have the ideas about the structure of the solar system changed since hundreds of years ago?
• What are the differences between the steady-state model of the universe and the Big Bang model of the universe?
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• What is the evidence for the heliocentric model (sun is the center of the solar system) and evidence why the Geocentric model (the universe revolves around the earth) is wrong?
• What is the Copernican Theory?
• In what way was Kant's revolution in epistemology similar to Copernicus' revolution in astronomy?
• What model did Copernicus think that the solar system was?
• Is it possible to have 3 stars within a single solar system?
• What was significant about Galileo's discovery of the moons of Jupiter?
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