Our Solar System

By: Tobia Schoedel

http://www.ezsoftech.com/islamic/images/solar-system.jpg

• Sun

• Moon

• Mercury

• Venus

• Earth

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Neptune

• Pluton

• Uranus

WHAT IS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM?

Center

Ball of gas

Holds it all together by gravity (1)

Biggest

Effect weather

http://space.about.com/od/solarsystem/tp/sun10things.htm

Mercury

• Closest to the sun

• 88 days to revolve (1)

• Very hot

http://images.wikia.com/liberapedia/images/c/c5/Mercury.jpg

2nd planet Very cloudy (Levy) Not water or oxygen 225 days revolution

(Eugene)

http://www.space.com/16022-2012-venus-transit-photos-skywatchers.html

Earth

• 3 planet

• We live here

• 365 day to revolve

• Water and land

• One moon

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e-6RU2sD4Rc/Tdty1TAXHuI/AAAAAAAABM0/nn8ajg7mXQ8/s1600/earth.jpg

Revolves around earth, 27.3 days (1)

Always the same side (2)

No mater

First person Neil Armstrong 1969 (2)

http://www.cristinanehring.com/journey_of_the_soul.html

4th planet

687 day around sun (1)

It rotate 24 hours 37mins (1)

Use to have water

http://www.cristinanehring.com/journey_of_the_soul.html

Largest planet

5th

11.9 year to go

around sun (1)

39 moons (1)

JUPITER

http://www.arcadiastreet.com/cgvist

as/jupiter_0000.htm

Saturn

• 6th

• 2nd largest planet

• 29 years (2)

• Ring 40 feet wide and that is small for the planet (1)

• 18 moons (2)

http://alacazem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/saturn_ball5.jpg

7th

84 years (1)

27 moons

Ring around Uranus point at

Earth (2)

http://www.outerspaceuniverse.or

g/10-random-facts-about-

uranus.html

URANUS

Neptune

• http://astrolosophy.net/universe/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/The_Planet_Neptune.jpg

• 8th

• 165 years(2)

• 8moons(1)

• Voyage 2(2)

9th

248 years (2) Discovered 1930 (2) 1 moon (1) Controversial whether

it is a planet or not

http://www.planetsforkids.org/upload/-Pluto-a.jpg

My very educated mother just showed us nine planets

Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto

http://faculty.mdc.edu/acieresz/psc1121/solar-

system.gif

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars Small Rock Terrestrial planets

◦ Like earth

Thin atmosphere, but each very different (2)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:4_Terrestrial_Planets_Size_Comp_True_Color.png

Outer planets Uranus, Neptune,

Jupiter, Saturn

Large

Gas

Jovian planets

Sources

1. Eugene, Toni, and Ellis D. Miner. Discover

Stars & Planets. Lincolnwood, IL:

Publications International, 1991. Print.

2. Levy, David H. Stars & Planets. San

Francisco: Sheena Coupe, 1996. Print.

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