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Our Solar SystemBy Jacob Gardner
The Sun
• The black markings on the sun are sun spots. They are cooler areas of the sun that disappear in a few weeks.
• The sun is made out of gas like hydrogen and helium.
• The sun is 28,000,000,000 F.
• The sun is 4,500,000,000 yrs old.
• The sun is 1,000,000,000 miles wide. It's so big you could fit 1,000,000,000 earths inside.
Mercury
• Mercury doesn’t have any moons or rings.
• Mercury is the smallest planet.
• Mercury is the closest planet to the sun but isn't the hottest.
• Your weight on Mercury would be 38% of your weight on Earth.
Venus
• Venus is the second natural brightest object in the sky.
• Venus is sometimes reffered to as the morning star or the evening star.
• One day on Venus is longer than a year.
• Venus is named after the Roman Goddess of love and beauty.
• Venus is sometimes called Earths sister.
• Venus is the same size as Earth but spins the opposite way.
Earth
• The Earth was once believed to be the center of the universe.
• The Earth has a powerful magnetic field.
• There is only one natural satilite of Earth.
• Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
• The Earths rotation is gradually slowing.
Mars
• It's the planet most like Earth.
• It's further away from the sun making it very cold.
• Scientists have discovered ice beneath the surface.
• That may mean that life used to be there.
• Mars has two moons.
• Mars' red shade is made by iron in the planet's surface.
Cere's
• Ceres is the only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, the other four are in the Kyiper belt.
• Ceres diameter is 950 km. Its distance from the sun is 413,700,000.
• Orbit period 4.60yrs
• It was discovered in 1801 and was classed as an astoroid, a comet and now a dwarf planet.
Jupiter
• Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system.
• It's so big it's 2.5 times the size of all the other planets combined.
• It's made mainly from gas and is known as one of the four gas giants along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
• Jupiter has 64 moons.
• It's the size of 1,300 Earths.
Saturn• Saturn is the second largest planet in
the solar system.
• It has nine beautiful rings that can be seen from a telescope.
• It's rings are made up of ice, rock, and dust.
• Saturn spins very fast and on its axis-a day on Saturn is 10 hours.
• It has 62 moons.
Uranus
• Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.
• Uranuses biggest moon is called Titania.
• Uranus is so far away, that if you where travalling to it from the sun, when you made it to Saturn you'd be half way there.
• It's a very cold place with tempretures reaching as low as -371 (-224).
Neptune
• Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun.
• Neptune is a cold, icey giant.
• Its a very bright blue due to methane gas with a water layer that leads down to a solid core the size of Earth.
• It takes 165 yrs to orbit the sun, meaning that its winter lasts 40 yrs.
Pluto
• Pluto is named after the god of the under world.
• Pluto was reclassifide as a dwarf planet in 2006.
• Pluto was discovered on February 18th 1930.
• Pluto has five moons.
• One is Charon, and that moon is so large that Pluto orbits it aswell.
• Pluto is the largest known dwarf planet.
Haumea
• Haumea's shape is warped into an oval shape due to its fast rotation.
• They argued over who really found it.
• It takes 285 yrs to orbit the sun because its so far away.
• One day on Haumea is 3.9 Earth hours because it is one of the fastest rotating objects in the Solar System.
Makemake
• Makemake is the largest Kuiper belt object.
• The extremely low tempreture of this planet -243.2 F.
• It has no satalites(moons)
• Makemake is covered in Methane,Ethane and probably Nitrogine ices.
• It has no Atmospheare.
• It was discovered in 2005.
• Makemake was one of the reasons Pluto lost it's status.
Eris
• It takes 557 yrs to orbit the sun.
• Eris got a position of being the tenth planet from the sun.
• Eris was named after the greek Godess of discord.
• Eris is the second largest dwarf planet.
• All the objects in the astoroid belt could fit in Eris.
• Eris is not always the most distant dwarf planet.