Introduction to the Solar System: Crash Course Astronomy #9

In today's Crash Course Astronomy, Phil takes a look at the explosive history of our cosmic backyard. We explore how we went from a giant ball of gas to the system of planets and other celestial objects we have today.

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Chapters:
Introduction 00:00
Geocentrism vs Heliocentrism 0:51
Makeup of the Solar System 2:38
Is Pluto a Planet? 3:14
Our Solar System 4:24
How Our Solar System Formed 5:36
Planet Formation Depends on Distance to Sun 7:14
Review 8:57

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PHOTO/VIDEO CREDITS
Sun: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/defa....ult/files/706436main [credit: NASA/ESA]
Jupiter: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images..../hubble/20140515/jup [credit: NASA/ESA]
Geocentric celestial spheres; Peter Apian's Cosmographia (Antwerp, 1539): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C....elestial_spheres#med
Ganymede: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F....ile:Noaa_ganymede.jp
Mercury: http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/ga....llery/sciencePhotos/ [credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington]
Understanding Solar System Dynamics: Orbits and Kepler's Laws (2008): https://archive.org/details/OrbitsAndKeplersLaws
Mercury: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080116.html
Venus: http://www.msss.com/all_projects/magellan.php
Earth: http://earthobservatory.nasa.g....ov/IOTD/view.php?id=
Mars: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pho....to_gallery/photogall
Jupiter: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pa....ges/cassini/multimed
Saturn: http://www.slate.com/content/d....am/slate/blogs/bad_a [credit: Photo by NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/Gordan Ugarkovic]
Uranus: http://hubblesite.org/newscent....er/archive/releases/
Neptune: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad...._astronomy/2014/05/1
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/defa....ult/files/hs-2014-29 [credit: JHUAPL/SwRI/Dan Durda]
Bennu’s Journey: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=20220&button=recent
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-b....in/details.cgi?aid=1
Artist's impression of a protoplanetary disk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P....rotoplanetary_disk#m
Rocky Ring of Debris Around Vega: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pa....ges/spitzer/multimed [image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech]
Proplyds in the Orion Nebula: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activit....ies/Space_Science/Bo