Measuring

How do we find asteroids?

Distances to objects in space are very, very large. The nearest star (excluding the Sun), Alpha Centauri, is 41.23 trillion km, or 41,320,000,000,000 km!!

Have you ever wondered how big each of the planets is? Bigger or smaller than the Earth?

From our viewpoint on Earth, we are the centre of a huge sphere in space. And all the objects in the night sky appear as points on the sphere.

You may know that Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, but do you know how much larger than the Earth it is?

Find out by creating a scale model of each planet in our Solar System!

Impact craters are made when a space rock (called a meteorite or asteroid) hits a rocky planet or moon. The impact makes a round hole in the surface, called a crater.