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11 PLANETS FOR KIDS! A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SOLAR SYSTEM WRITTEN BY EAMONN NUGENT EDITED BY SARA LYON MERCURY THE CLOSEST PLANET TO THE SUN YET COLDER THAN VENUS. THE ATMOSPHERE OF MERCURY IS VERY THIN. IT HAS A BEIGE STRIPE WITH NO CRATERS THAT LOOKS LIKE A DESERT, BUT I DO NOT KNOW ANYONE THAT KNOWS WHAT IT IS. IT ALSO HAS A SMALL CIRCULAR AREA. VENUS 2ND FROM THE SUN, BUT THE HOTTEST PLANET. IT HAS GAS THAT MAKES IT THE HOTTEST PLANET. VENUS, ONCE A TWIN OF EARTH, IS NOW DEVOID OF WATER. (DEVOID MEANS DOES NOT HAVE) VENUS AND EARTH HAVE ABOUT THE SAME AMOUNT OF CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2). VENUS 4.5 MILLION YEARS AGO, VENUS AND EARTH WERE NEARLY THE SAME SIZE. IT HAS STRANGE MARKS ALL OVER IT: SOME LIKE LIGHTNING BOLTS, SOME LIKE SUN SPOTS. VENUS LOOKS YELLOW BECAUSE THE CLOUDS ARE MADE OF SULPHUR CRYSTALS AND SULPHUR IS YELLOW. EARTH 3RD FROM SUN IS THE PERFECT PLACE FOR OUR PLANET. EARTH IS OUR HOME PLANET. IT HAS A MAGNETIC FIELD AROUND IT THAT PROTECTS IT FROM THE SOLAR WIND. THERE ARE ABOUT 6-9 ATMOSPHERES. MARS 4TH FROM THE SUN WHICH IS MARS, THE RED PLANET! MARS HAS A RED ATMOSPHERE, AND HAS WHAT LOOKS LIKE AN ICECAP; IT HAS A VERY BIG CRATER, TOO. MOUNTAINS, HILLS AND CRATERS MAKE UP MOST OF MARS. IT’S ABOUT HALF THE SIZE OF VENUS. JUPITER 6 TH FROM THE SUN WHILE THE BIGGEST PLANET! THE RED SPOT COULD FIT THREE EARTHS IN IT AND IT IS A STORM! JUPITER COULD FIT ABOUT 1,300 EARTHS IN IT. SOME OF ITS MOONS ARE CALLED IO, GALILEO, AND EUROPA. SATURN 7TH FROM THE SUN. LOTS OF RINGS. THE ONE. THE ONLY... SATURN!!!! FUN FACT: SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND A NEW MOON HIDDEN IN ONE OF SATURN’S RINGS!!! THE RINGS ARE MADE OF CHUNKS OF ICE AND ROCK. SATURN IS A BIT SMALLER THAN JUPITER. SOME OF THE ROCK CHUNKS IN SATURN’S RINGS CAN BE AS BIG AS A HOUSE OR SMALL AS A PEBBLE. URANUS 8TH FROM SUN WHILE A VERY WIERD GAS GIANT. IT HAS SOMEWHERE AROUND 9 GAS RINGS! IT LIES ON ITS SIDE!! I WONDER HOW THAT HAPPENED? DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT URANUS IS LIGHTGREEN? YES? WELL LET US TELL YOU THAT URANUS IS ACTUALLY BLUE-GREEN. NEPTUNE 9TH FROM THE SUN WHICH IS NEPTUNE THE BLUE PLANET! NEPTUNE IS NAMED AFTER THE ROMAN GOD OF THE SEA. THERE IS A BLUE STORM ON NEPTUNE JUST LIKE JUPITER BUT JUPITER’S STORM IS RED AND NEPTUNE’S IS BLUE. WELL THAT’S ALL WE KNOW ABOUT NEPTUNE. DWARF PLANET: CERES CERES IS THE 5TH FROM THE SUN. DO YOU KNOW WHY WE DID NOT PUT IT IN ITS SPOT IN THE BOOK? WELL WE WILL TELL YOU WHY. BECAUSE IT IS A DWARF PLANET. DWARF’S GO ON THE LAST 3 PAGES. THIS IS DWARF #1. THE NEXT DWARF IS... PLEASE TURN THE PAGE. DWARF PLANET: PLUTO 10TH FROM THE SUN. PLUTO’S GAS FREEZES WHEN IT IS FAR FROM THE SUN, AND IT MELTS WHEN IT IS CLOSE TO THE SUN. I DON’T KNOW BUT I THINK THAT PLUTO AND ERIS HAVE MOONS. ERIS IS ON THE NEXT PAGE. DWARF PLANET: ERIS ERIS IS 11TH FROM THE SUN. IT IS THE LAST PLANET IN OUR JOURNEY THROUGH OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. HERE IS THE LIST OF THE DWARF PLANETS IN SIZE ORDER. SMALL #1 CERES MEDUM #2 ERIS LARGE #3 PLUTO CHECK OUT OUR NEXT BOOK, SPACE TECH. BYE.