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Using my blindingly fast Comet Craft, I recently traveled to
each of our Solar System’s eight (ahem...nine*) planets.
I
collected data and sketched the delegates from each planet
as I traveled.
Both NASA and the President of the United States have
given me permission to provide this invaluable information
from my sketchbook as a freely distributable guide.
I hope you enjoy.
-Michael Startzman
*I know there are only 8 planets but in an effort of diplomacy, I thought it
best to include Pluto. Read on and you’ll see why.
Michael Startzman’s Sketchbook Guide to the Solar System
Copyright 2012 © Michael Startzman. All rights reserved.
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THE SUN
Solarian // The Nalrodage
(nal•row•dayg) The Nalrodage move so fast they’re impossible to
see as they move from place to place. The Nalrodage have no
discernible mouth and can actually travel through space without
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is
artificial aid. They grow up to 4 feet tall and seem to be comprised
almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma
of light and gas. Unlike their home star, the Sun, the Nalrodage
interwoven with magnetic fields. Chemically, about three
quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while the
rest is mostly helium. The remainder consists of heavier
elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon and iron, among
others.
The Sun is informally designated as a yellow dwarf, because
its visible radiation is most intense in the yellow-green
portion of the spectrum and although its color is white, from
the surface of the Earth it may appear yellow because of
atmospheric scattering of blue light. The Sun is now thought
to be brighter than about 85% of the stars in the Milky Way
galaxy, most of which are red dwarfs.
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are cool to the touch.
MERCURY
Mercurian // The U'asenth
(oo•ah•sehn•TH) The U’asenth have four wings and can travel
at speeds up to 80 mph. All U’asenth have “fire” heads which
Mercury is the smallest of the eight planets. It is also the
closest to the Sun. Mercury goes around the Sun the fastest
of all the planets and has no moons.
The Romans believed that gods and goddesses were in
charge of everything on Earth. Mercury is named after the
messenger for their gods. The Roman Mercury had wings on
his helmet and shoes. He could travel very quickly from place
to place. The planet Mercury moves quickly around the sun.
That is how it got its name.
Mercury is a little bigger than Earth's moon. It is made of
heavier materials, like iron. If you could weigh Mercury and
the moon, Mercury would weigh a lot more. Mercury is heavy,
but it is small. It would take more than 18 Mercurys to be as
big as Earth
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shift in color and can appear blue, green, red, yellow, orange
and white. The U’asenth grow no larger than 3 feet in height.
VENUS
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, and is Earth's
closest neighbor in the solar system. Venus is the brightest
object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon, and sometimes
looks like a bright star in the morning or evening sky. Venus is
classified as a terrestrial planet and it is sometimes called
Earth's "sister planet" owing to their similar size, gravity, and
bulk composition. Venus is covered with an opaque layer of
highly reflective clouds of sulfuric acid, preventing its surface
from being seen from space in visible light. Venus has the
densest atmosphere of all the planets in the Solar System,
consisting of mostly carbon dioxide. Venus is covered with
craters, volcanoes, mountains, and big lava plains.
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Venusian // The Agerack
(ag•erh•ahk) Agerack have a series of tubes on their head and
“gills” on their faces for filtering the heavy amounts of carbon
dioxide and sulfuric acid found on Venus. Ageracks have a glassy
appearance filled with ever-moving gasses and grow to over 8ft tall.
EARTH
Earthling // The Doggy
(dah•gee) The Doggy have four legs and vary drastically in size.
Most Doggy have a powerful nose making them capable of tracking
prey or finding other Doggy from great distances. The Doggy also
Earth (or the Earth) is the third planet from the Sun, the
densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar
System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four
terrestrial planets. It is sometimes referred to as the world,
the Blue Planet, or by its Latin name, Terra.
About 71% of the surface is covered by salt water oceans,
with the remainder consisting of continents and islands
which together have many lakes and other sources of water.
Earth's only known natural satellite, the Moon, which began
orbiting it about 4.53 billion years ago, provides ocean tides,
stabilizes the axial tilt, and gradually slows the planet's
rotation.
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possess a tail though its usefulness has yet to be determined.
MARS
Martian // The Froud
(frowd) The Froud are found all across the surface of Mars and
range in size from 2ft to 4ft in height. The Froud communicate by
a series of high pitched whistles and can withdraw entirely into
their “shells”. It is unclear if the shell is grown or scavenged.
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the next planet
beyond Earth. It is, on average, more than 142 million miles
from the sun. Mars is about one-sixth the size of Earth. Mars
is known as the Red Planet. It gets its red color from the iron
in its soil.
Mars is named for the ancient Roman god of war. The Greeks
called the planet Ares. The Romans and Greeks associated
the planet with war because its color resembles the color of
blood.
Mars has two small moons. Their names are Phobos and
Deimos. They are named for the sons of Ares, the Greek god
of war. Phobos means "fear," and Deimos means "panic.
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JUPITER
Jupiterian // The Chreelddenl
(kree•ehld•den•ul) Possessing an odd number of “legs” only
serves to make the Chreelddenl an even stranger race.
Seemingly bulky, the Chree’ are exceedingly fast. They also
possess a number of thin, breathing tubes on their arms allowing
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet
within the Solar System at two and a half times the mass of
all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is
classified as a gas giant along with Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune. Together, these four planets are sometimes referred
to as the Jovian or outer planets.
The Romans named the planet after the Roman god Jupiter.
When viewed from Earth, Jupiter can reach an apparent
magnitude of −2.94, making it on average the third-brightest
object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus.
Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen with a quarter of
its mass being helium. Because of its rapid rotation, Jupiter's
shape is that of an oblate spheroid (it possesses a slight but
noticeable bulge around the equator). The Great Red Spot, a
giant storm that is known to have existed since at least the
17th century when it was first seen by telescope.
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them to run without getting winded on Jupiter’s stormy surface.
SATURN
Saturian // The Isst
(izt) The Isst vary in size much like earthlings do. They have bright
blue, shiny eyes and bio-luminescent filaments just below the
segmented neck. The Isst are very friendly and quite agile. They
are able to leap around Saturn in great bounds sometimes
carrying them nearly a mile at a time.
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second
largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is named
after the Roman god Saturn.
Saturn's ring system is the most extensive and complex in
our solar system; it extends hundreds of thousands of
kilometers from the planet. Saturn's rings are made mostly
of water ice, and "braided" rings, ringlets and "spokes" dark features in the rings that seem to circle the planet at a
different rate from that of the surrounding ring material. Some
of the small moons orbit within the ring system as well.
Saturn has 31 known natural satellites (moons). The largest,
Titan, is a bit bigger than the planet Mercury. Titan is
shrouded in a thick nitrogen-rich atmosphere that might be
similar to what Earth's was like long ago.
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Uranian // The Rilim
URANUS
(ril•ehm) The Rilim reach nearly 14 feet in height (when standing
upright) and grow brilliant, glass-like protrusions on their backs.
They are nearly the same color as their environment and their skin
seems to shift accordingly. Despite their limber appearance, the
Rilim are quite slow and deliberate in their movements.
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the thirdlargest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in
the Solar System. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of
the sky Uranus, the father of Cronus (Saturn) and grandfather
of Zeus (Jupiter). Uranus was also the first planet discovered
with a telescope. Uranus is the only planet whose name is
derived from a figure from Greek mythology rather than
Roman mythology.
Uranus is similar in composition to Neptune. Uranus's
atmosphere, contains more "ices" such as water, ammonia
and methane and is the coldest planetary atmosphere in the
Solar System.
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Neptunian // The Orworach
NEPTUNE
(or•wa•rawk) The Orworach reach a height of 12 feet, have four
massive arms and a thick coat of dense fur. Some Orworach
have been seen with four horns but it is more common to see
two. The Orworach live in underground caverns but frequently
venture to the surface in search of food.
Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in
the Solar System. Named for the Roman god of the sea, it
is the fourth-largest planet by diameter.
Neptune's
atmosphere is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium,
along with traces of hydrocarbons and possibly nitrogen,
containing a higher proportion of "ices" such as water,
ammonia and methane. Astronomers sometimes categorize
Neptune as an "ice giant" in order to emphasize these
distinctions. The interior of Neptune is primarily composed of
ices and rock. Traces of methane in the outermost regions in
part account for the planet's blue appearance.
Neptune's atmosphere is notable for its active and visible
weather patterns. These weather patterns are driven by the
strongest sustained winds of any planet in the Solar System.
Because of its great distance from the Sun, Neptune's outer
atmosphere is one of the coldest places in the Solar System.
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PLUTO
Plutonian // The Saykril
(sey•kril) Roughly 3ft. tall, little else is known about the Saykril
They were mostly inhospitable when I met with them; still clearly
upset about the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet. I even heard
talk of retaliation as I was leaving.
Pluto, is the second-most-massive known dwarf planet in the
Solar System and the tenth-most-massive body observed
directly orbiting the Sun. Originally classified as the ninth
planet from the Sun, Pluto was recategorized as a dwarf
planet and plutoid due to the discovery that it is one of
several large bodies within the Kuiper belt.
Like other members of the Kuiper belt, Pluto is composed
primarily of rock and ice and is relatively small: approximately
a sixth the mass of the Earth's Moon.
Pluto has four known moons.
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