Did you know there are hundreds, even thousands of “worlds” swinging around our Sun?
Most of these are icy places on the edge of the Solar System. From Pluto and the other dwarf planets to comets and moons of the outer planets, come explore the worlds you never knew.
In this show, your hosts space journalists and authors Peter McMahon and Rick Stankiewicz are set to take you on a tour of the latest pictures from the surface of a comet and the upcoming mission to take the first-ever close-up pictures of Pluto.
AVAILABLE FOR GRADES: 1-12
AVAILABLE LENGTHS:
20 minutes
25 minutes
30 minutes
CURRICULUM LINKS:
– Space exploration and the Solar System
– Formation, evolution, structure and nature of the Solar System
– Canadian contributions to efforts in space-based science experiments, astronomy, cosmology, and aerospace
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