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The
Milky Way
By Christian.V
Sun or our Star
The suns temperature is 9,940 degrees
Fahrenheit
and its Radius Is 432,474 miles .
The Sun name comes from a Latin term
“sol” from the ancient Romans
Did you know that one million Earth can fit
in our sun and our sun is a star and it’s a
Medium star compared to others.
Mercury
Mercury is the first planet in out
solar system it’s named after the
Roman Messenger god Because on
how quickly it orbits the sun.
Mercury if you walked on Mercury
the sun would be 2 ½ times bigger
than it looks on earth.
Mercury is also the closest planet
to the sun but doesn’t make it the
hottest .
Venus
Venus is named after the roman
god of love and beauty.
Venus is the hottest planet because
it’s Atmosphere traps heat so that’s
why Mercury isn't the hottest.
Venus air mostly carbon dioxide so
we can not live there because it the
air is poisonous to us but if it
weren’t so hot plants could life
there .
Earth
Earth is name is a English/German
name which means ground
Earth is the only planet that can
support life and water
Earth is in the perfect stop if it were
closer to the sun the water would all
evaporate and if it were farther the
water would freeze
Earth Atmosphere is 21% Oxygen
and it 93 million miles away form the
Sun .
Mars (the red
planet)
Mars has two Moons and it’s about hafe
the size of earth and it’s the moons
name are called Phobos and Deimos
Mars has canyons that may have once
been rivers and mars may at one point
in time have life
 Mars is named after the god of war
after it red like color.
Jupiter
Jupiter has red spot known as The Great
Red Spot which Is a giant, swirling
hurricane which is bigger than three
Earths
Jupiter moon Io has more than 400 active
Volcanoes.
Jupiter Moon Callisto is bigger than
Mercury
Saturn
Saturn moon Mimas is so
small it could fit in Texas
Saturn rings are about 0.5
mile thick and 180 miles
wide.
Saturn has 62 moons and
Mimas looks like an eye ball
because of a huge creater
Uranus
Uranus is the only planet in this solar
system that spins on it’s side and it was
discovered by William Herschel and
he found it on 13 March 1781.
Uranus has 20 year long seasons wow !
One year on Uranus is 80 earth years.
Neptune
1. Neptune was discovered on 23
September 1846 by Urbain Le Verrier,
John Couch Adams, Johann Galle
2. Neptune Great Dark Spot is big
enough to fit a earth in it’s similar to the
great red stop on Jupiter
3. Neptune winds are three times stronger
than Jupiter's and nine times stronger
than earths
Comets
 Comets are balls of ice that form in the Oort
cloud they have bright, flashing light tails
behind them. Orbiting the sun, swooping
toward and away from it.
 In 1994 a comet called Shoemaker-Levy
smashed into Jupiter. It created a ball of fire the
size of earth
Oort cloud
The Oort Cloud is at the
edge of out solar system in
it are the farthest objects
held by our sun
Asteroids
1. Asteroids are rocks that float in space
2. One asteroid names chariklo is known to
have odd rings around it
Meteorite
A Meteorite is a
asteroid that hit
Earth the biggest
one is called the
Willamette metorite
Pluto
Pluto is a dwarf planet and it is smaller
than our moon
Pluto has a 5 moons they are Charon,
Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra.
Charon the largest moon is 750 and 753
miles (1,207 and 1,212 kilometers) in
diameter
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 Most facts were bought to you by
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/,the book planets By
Penelope Arlon and Tory Gordon Harris, or my school
packet