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About this Site - Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System
About Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System
Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System is a website about the Sun, its planets and their
moons, plus smaller objects like comets, asteroid...
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The Formation of the Solar System - Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System
Description of how a solar system forms, from a cloud of dust and gas particles called a nebula. The star
forms at the centre and planets form from the remaining matter swirling around it.
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Solar System Overview - Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System
An overview of the solar system, The Sun, the eight planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune), Asteroid Belt, dwarf planets and comets
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Solar System Table - Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System
Table of statistics for the planets and dwarf planets in the solar system. Find out how big they are, how far away from
Sun they are, the length of time it takes them to orbit the Sun, the time it tak...
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Phases of the Moon - Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System - Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar
The Moon's appearance goes through phases that repeat about every 28 days. It goes from a new moon to a waxing
crescent, first quarter (half moon), waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last qua...
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The Sun - Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System
The Sun is a star at the centre of the Solar System. It is large enough to contain every single other object in the Solar System and produces light and heat which enables life on Earth to exist.