Planet Research Hotlist

Click on the site name or URL to access each site.

Enchanted Learning: Zoom Astronomy
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/

The Nine Planets for Kids
http://mercury.nineplanets.org:8011/tnp4kids/index.html

Astronomy and Space for Kids – awesome pictures, click on link Solar System
http://www.kidsastronomy.com/

Starchild
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html

NASA websites for kids:
http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/solar-system/

Ask an Astronomer websites:
http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/qanda.html
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/index.shtml
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/
http://www.ucolick.org/~mountain/AAA/

The Nine Planets
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

Sea and Sky: A Tour of the Solar System
http://www.seasky.org/solarsystem/sky3.html

"Spaced Out" - a model of our solar system in England
http://www.spacedout-uk.com/index.asp

SIRS Discoverer
http://www.sirs.com
Username: ks3244h
Password: 66226

Books to "Check Out" for more information:

Dwarf Planets: Pluto, Charon, Ceres, and Eris by Nancy Loewen

Dwarf Planets by Fran Howard

Ten Worlds: Everything that Orbits the Sun by Ken Croswell

11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System by David A. Aguilar

Neptune and Distant Dwarf Planets by World Book Inc.

Where did Pluto Go? A Beginners Guide to Understanding the New Solar System by Paul Sutherland