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written by Martin Hackworth

This lab asks students to create a mini solar system to scale, to be able to explain terms associated with orbits, and to demonstrate an understanding of Kepler's laws.

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Astronomy - Fundamentals = Celestial Mechanics = Kepler's Laws	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Activity = Laboratory

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 1997 Martin Hackworth, University of Idaho
Keywords:: astronomy, kepler's laws, orbits, planetary motion, planets, scale
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created January 6, 2004 by Patricia Monahan
Record Updated:: September 24, 2021 by Lyle Barbato
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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M. Hackworth, The Solar System (1997), <http://web.archive.org/web/20120113043745/http://www.physics.isu.edu/~hackmart/astlbsol.pdf>.

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