Real World: Limits of the Solar System
What defines the limits of the solar system? Where does the Oort Cloud fit within this defined space? Paul Chodas, from NASA's Near Earth Object Program, answers these questions and fills us in on some of NASA's missions and explorations that have helped shape our understanding of the solar system.
Background Information
Grades 6 through 8
- NASA New Horizons
- NASA Our Solar System Lithograph Set
- NASA Solar System Ambassadors
- NASA Solar System Exploration
- NASA Solar System Scale and Size
- NASA Voyager
- NASA JPL Cassini
- NASA Space Place Gallery of Solar System Images
- NASA Space Place Solar System
Grades 6 through 8
- NASA SpacePlace Where Does the Solar System End?
Activities
Grades 6 through 8
- NASA Scale Models of the Solar System
- NASA Solar System Exploration - Kids
- NASA Solar System Trading Cards
- NASA Space Place Where Does Interstellar Space Begin?
- NASA JPL Eyes on the Solar System
Grades K through 8
- NASA New Horizons In Depth
- NASA Solar System Scale
- Lunar and Planetary Institute Solar System in My Neighborhood
Grades K through 12
Mathematics
Grades K through 8
- NASA SpaceMath Year of the Solar System -- Math Guide