Download The Favell Fun Club Members Explore..... Space! Our intrepid duo

The Favell Fun Club Members Explore..... Space!
Our intrepid duo returned for a cosmic led treasure hunt around the centre in which they found all
of the plants in the solar system hidden around the centre. There were lots of songs, games, stories
and adventures.
Here’s a full list of the fantastic facts we discovered:
1. Our sun is actually an average sized star. There are 8 planets orbiting our sun. This is called
the solar system.
2. The planets are called Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. A
good way to remember the names of the planets is to use this sentence, the first letter of
each word reminds you of the planet names: “My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up
Naming”.
3. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun
4. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system
5. Mars is sometimes called the red planet
6. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and has 63 moons.
7. Saturn is surrounded by beautiful rings, these are made up of rocks and dust orbiting the
planet.
8. Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system
9. Neptune is made entirely of gas.
10. Earth is the only planet that has living things and liquid water on it.
11. The Earth is 93 Million miles away from the sun.
12. Things are so far away from each other in space that we have to measure distances in a
special way. We do this by using how far light can travel in one year – this is
5,878,599,810,000 miles and we call that distance one LIGHT YEAR.
13. The moon is 1 light second away from the Earth.
14. The sun is 8 light minutes away, so this means it takes light from the sun 8 minutes to travel
to the Earth!