I am doing an English oral on our solar system, what should I chose?
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I always liked astroids myself.
meteoroids would be good too.
Asteroids, also called minor planets or planetoids, are a class of astronomical objects. The term asteroid is generally used to indicate a diverse group of small celestial bodies that drift in the solar system in orbit around the Sun. Asteroid (Greek for "star-like") is the word used most in the English literature for minor planets, which has been the term preferred by the International Astronomical Union; some other languages prefer planetoid (Greek: "planet-like"), because it more accurately describes what they are. In late August 2006, the IAU introduced the term "small solar system bodies" (SSSBs), which includes most objects thus far classified as minor planets, as well as comets. At the same time they introduced the term dwarf planet for the largest minor planets.
A meteoroid is a large sand to boulder-sized particle of debris in the Solar system. The visible path of a meteoroid that enters the Earth's (or another body's) atmosphere is a meteor, commonly called a shooting star or falling star
Mars would be a great one! Considering there may have been life on Mars at one time. There is a lot of information on Mars as well. It'll leave your classmates in wonder, and maybe keep them thinking about the possibility of life beyond our planet.
Plenty of resources for Mars, it would be an easy one as well!
Best of luck =)
When I grew up Pluto we were taught was a planet and now I hear it is not. I would be interested to know how the scientists decided this and why the new classification and what exactly is it now. Just a thought.
Well, there are two paths you can travel. If you want to stick with conventional astronomy I would suggest you do your report on trans-Neptunian objects. As you probably know by now, Pluto is no longer considered a planet - in large part because other objects have been discovered beyond Pluto which not on rival, but possibly exceed Pluto in size. Trans-Neptunian (so called because their orbits transit the orbit of the outer planet Neptune) are the "in" thing in solar system astronomy and are really rather interesting. If you wish to delve into more theoretical astronomy, which is really cool, but somewhat less scientific, then you can do your oral on things like rogue planets or the theory that our sun is part of a binary system and we cannot see the other sun simply because it is too small and too cool to detect using common astronomical tools, but can be inferred from the motion of our own sun, or the theory that there is another gas giant like Jupiter out beyond Pluto and the other trans-Neptunians. Really heavy stuff bound to keep your class spellbound, but if your teacher is really conventional, I might want to stick with the first idea.
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