Solar System

Third grade

The SunBy

Adrian

Sun

• The sun keeps the solar system together.

• The sun is the largest object in our solar system.

• The sun is the biggest star in our solar system.

Mercury by

Yamilet

Mercury

• Mercury is the closest planet to the sun• Mercury is a beautiful planet• When Mercury faces the sun it can reach 800

degrees Fahrenheit• At night it can drop to about -270 degrees

Fahrenheit

VenusBy

Christian

Venus

• Venus has 0 moons.• Venus is smaller than earth.• Venus is the second planet from the sun.

EarthBy

Mason

Earth

• The middle layer is called the mantle• The outside layer of the Earth is called the

crust• The mantle is hot and partly melted

MarsBy

Jorge

Mars

• The distance of the sun to Mars is one hundred forty-one million miles.

• The length of a day on Mars is 24 earth hours. • The diameter of Mars is 4,200 miles.

JupiterBy

Noah

Jupiter

• Jupiter is very large. • Jupiter has 63 moons. • Jupiter has rings made of rocks and dust.

SaturnBy

Sarah

Saturn

• People can’t breathe on Saturn. • Saturn does not have oxygen.• People like looking at Saturn.• It is beautiful.• It has one hundred rings around it.• You can see Saturn without a telescope.

UranusBy

Quest

Uranus

• Closest moon is Miranda • Uranus -84 earth years to orbit• Uranus blue planet• Uranus seventh planet from Sun• Uranus outer planet• Uranus father of Saturn

NeptuneBy

John

Neptune

• 300,000,000 miles away from the sun• On the planet Neptune the wind blows about

1,500 miles an hour.• Neptune’s orbit is so long that it has not even

orbited the sun once since NASA found it in 1846.

Pluto and Dwarf Planets

ByLorely

Pluto And Dwarf Planets

• When Pluto travels around the sun, it goes in a long narrow path or orbit, it crosses into Neptune’s orbit. In January 2006, a spacecraft named New Horizons blasted off for Pluto. Pluto’s moons name is Charon. •There are 44 dwarf planets in the solar system. The four largest dwarf planets are Eris, Pluto, Makemake and Ceres. Scientists have sent space probes to these planets.

AsteroidsBy

Julian

Asteroids

• Asteroids orbit the sun • Most Asteroids are about

2,000,000 miles from Earth • It takes 4 or 5 years to orbit the

sun

Meteor By

Rachel

Meteor

• A meteor can be as small as a pebble or as big as a boulder.

• A meteor was found in Antarctica.• A meteor is made out of rock or iron.

COMETSBY

TIA

Comets• Comet Halley was first seen in 1758 • Comets are like huge snowballs• Comets leave trails of gas and dust

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