The Solar System

The cloud of dust and gas that formed into the solar system

He proposed a Geocentric model that lasted 1400 years.

The idea that the earth is the center of the Solar System

Planets orbit the sun on ellipses not perfect circles.

All of the planets orbit the sun in the same direction.

Choose the scientist that supported the geocentric model

Small particles of dust and rock were drawn together by gravity to form meter sized pieces of rock also called:

This Polish astronomer developed the fist widely used Heliocentric model of the Solar System.

The farthest point a planet gets from the Sun

This Italian scientist used his telescope to observe the moons of Jupiter

This German mathematician developed 3 laws that explained how planets orbited the sun

The closest point a planet gets to the sun in its orbit