TIM: The outer planets were once rocky, too, but their gravity captured the gas pushed away by the sun. The added planet has a question mark placed in the middle of it. An animation first shows the sun and several other planets surrounded by a ring of gray specks, and then zooms out to show the entire solar system, represented by light purple dots arranged in a spherical pattern against a night sky. TIM: The Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud are areas in the far regions of the solar system where small bodies like comets are thought to originate. TIM: Well, planetary scientists arent sure whether Sedna is one of the farthest scattered disc objects or part of another region: the Oort cloud. 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TIM: Most of them are concentrated in the Asteroid Belt, between Mars and Jupiter. TIM: Comets are totally different than asteroids. (Apply new knowledge;Identify cause/effect). There's quite a variety of stuff in the solar system, right? What's your favorite thing out there? All rights reserved. The sphere gets bigger and brighter until it explodes, pushing gas away and leaving the eight planets orbiting the sun. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! As the sides are mentioned, two inserts appear. In the animation, Mercury moves off and is replaced by a view of Venus. TIM: The four inner planets are rocky, relatively warm, and have craters. The animation shows a drawing of a circle of rocks around the sun and planets at the top. Moby thinks and then extends his arms. Astronomers believe that more than 4.5 billion years ago, an exploding star created a huge cloud of gas and dust. 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TIM: It also has a permanent storm on its surface called the Great Red Spot, which is way bigger than the entire Earth! An animation shows Moby sitting next to Tim and looking at him while Tim is talking to him. In the animation, an insert compares Jupiter with some of the other planets. TIM: Pluto has an odd elliptical orbit that sometimes brings it closer to the sun than Neptune. Contents 1 Summary 2 Appearances 3 Transcript 4 Quiz 5 FYI Comic 6 Gallery Summary While scanning the night sky with a pair of binoculars, Tim is interrupted by Moby, giving him a letter asking if there is a 'Planet X'. TIM: But scientists are pretty sure that both of the Voyager probes have passed the termination shock, and are closing in on the heliopause. It is depicted as a blue-green sphere with a small white vertical ring. Each is depicted with rings of different sizes. There are four rocky, inner planetsMercury, Venus, Earth, and Marsand four gas giants farther outJupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. TIM: Oh, the things I mentioned are all governed by the suns gravity, which stretches half way to the next star system! Another animation shows floating objects coming together and forming the planet Jupiter. BrainPOP Jr. Games. An animation shows Earth from outer space, with Moby's arms extending around the planet in a giant hug. TIM: The dense, carbon dioxide atmosphere on Venus traps so much heat, the surface can get up to over 450 degrees Celsius. For all eleven planets, each ellipse lies entirely within the surrounding ellipse. ","What is the Sun? TIM: Neptune is the last gas giant and it has more than a dozen moons. In the animation, the view changes to the planets circling the sun. While scanning the night sky with a pair of binoculars, Tim is interrupted by Moby, giving him a letter asking if there is a 'Planet X'. 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