The Preproduction Process: Planning
Every smooth operation begins with a good plan. The more research and focused information you gather, the better off you’ll be in your work. For this exercise, you need to find out where each of the planets is in relation to the Sun and to the other planets and also how many moons it has.
Starting with the Sun in the center, the planets in order are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. (We’ll label Pluto a planet for old time’s sake, even though it was reclassified as a “dwarf planet” by the scientific community in 2006.) All these planets actually orbit the Sun in ellipses, but we’ll give them circular orbits for this exercise. Most planets have a number of moons that orbit ...
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