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All about our solar
system
By: Lauren Stinson
Sun
• The sun is in the center
of our solar system
• The sun is exploding
every second
• All the planets revolve
around the sun
• 109 earths would be
required to fit across the
suns disk and its interior
could hold over 1.3 million
earths
Mercury
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Mercury is the closest to the
sun
The orbit is 57,910,000
kilometers from the sun
Its diameter is 4,880
kilometers from the sun
Its mass is 3.30e23
kilograms
Mercury is the closest planet
to the sun
Mercury is smaller in
diameter than in Ganymede
and titan but more massive
Venus
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Venus has thick
poisonous clouds so you
could not live there and
because its to hot
Venus is the second
planet from the sun and
the 6th largest
Venus’s orbit is the most
nearly circular of that of
any planet with an
eccentricity of less than
1%
Its orbit is 108,200,000
kilometers
Its diameter is 12,103.6
kilometers
Its mass is 4.869e24
kilograms
Earth
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It’s the 5th largest and it has 1
moon
It was not until the Earth is the
third planet from the sun time
of Copernicus that it was
understood that the earth just
another planet
Earth of course can be studied
without the aid of spacecraft
is Nevertheless it was not until
the 20th century that we had
maps of the entire planet
Pictures of the planet taken
from space are considerable
importance for example they
are an enormous help in
weather prediction and
especially in tracking and
predicting hurricanes and they
are extraordinary beautiful
Its orbit is 149,600,000
kilometers
Its diameter is 12,756.3
kilometers
Its mass is 5.9736e24
kilograms
Mars
• Mars has the largest
canyon in the solar
system it would reach
from Los Angeles to
Chicago if it was on earth
• Mars has a very thick
atmosphere mostly
carbon dioxide but dust
storms can cover the
whole planet for months
at a time
• About every 2 years earth
and mars come close
together the planet has 2
moons Deimos and
Phobos
Jupiter
• Jupiter is the
biggest planet
• Jupiter has 18
moons
• Jupiter takes about
12 years to orbit
the sun and rotates
in about 10 hours
• This short Jupiter
day is amazing
since the planet is
roughly 11 earth
diameters wide
Saturn
• Saturn has rings
• Saturn's rings are made
up of ice and dust
• 4 more moons were found
in late 2000 and 9 more
were discovered recently
with a total of 31 moons
Uranus
• Uranus takes 84 years
to orbit the sun
• It rotates on its side so
half the time 1 pole is
toward the sun and the
other making each of
the 4 seasons last for
20 years
• Uranus has rings
• Its diameter is 51,118
kilometers
Neptune
• Neptune has rings
• It has 13 moons
• Its rotation is 0 days
16.11 hours
• Its diameter is 49,572
kilograms
Our solar system includes the Sun, Mercury, Venus,
Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
and the planets are divided into 2 groups by the
asteroid belt 1 group is called the inner planets
they include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars and
the outer planets includes Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, and Neptune and Earth is perfect for us
because Mercury and Venus are to hot and Venus
has thick poisonous clouds and Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are to cold and the
sun heats our Earth and explodes every second
• www.google.com/images
• www.goodteeth.com/facts_sun.
htm
• www.kidscosmos.org/kidstuff/neptune-facts.html