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Solar System
2B
2010
The Sun
By Skyler Hopwood
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All planets revolve
around the sun.
It gives heat and light
to live.
It is a star which is
made up of gases
called hydrogen and
helium.
Saturn
by Shey Rodriguez
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Saturn has 52 moons.
Saturn has many
gaseous rings.
Saturn is the sixth
planet from the sun.
Saturn is made of
gases.
Mars
By Rani Qaqish
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Mars is called the red
planet.
The sand in mars is of
red iron.
It is the 4th planet
from the sun.
It has two moons.
Asteroid Belt
By Nick Mowat
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The asteroid belt is a
big highway in the
Solar System.
The asteroid belt is
divided in to an inner
belt and outer belt.
It is made up of
thousands of objects.
They are too small to
be named planets.
Earth
By Hannah Warren
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The Earth has only
one moon.
It is the planet we
evolved on.
The moon revolves
around the earth and
is sometimes called
Earth’s satellite.
Mars
by Maggie Pallesen
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Mars is the 4th planet
from the sun.
Mars is called the red
planet because the sand
on Mars is made from red
iron oxide.
Mars is a desert planet.
Mars has two small
moons called Phobos and
Deimos. They are shaped
like potatoes.
Uranus
By Maureen Pieper
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Uranus has lots of
moons. Some scientists
think that they’re made of
graphite.
No other planet spins like
it.
It’s named after the
Greek god of the sky.
It was discovered in 1781
by William Herschel.
Neptune
by Josephine Garro
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If Neptune were
hollow it could fit 60
Earths .
On some days it is
farther than Pluto
from the sun.
It has 8 moons .
It is 3 billion miles to
the sun.
Neptune
by Nick Knudson
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Neptune has a hazy
atmosphere.
Neptune has strong
winds.
It has 8 moons.
If Neptune were
hollow it could hold 60
earths.
Mercury
by Emma McClellan
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One side of Mercury
is burning hot and the
other side is freezing
cold.
Mercury could melt a
tin pan.
Mercury has holes in
it because meteorites
and asteroids crashed
into it.
Venus
by Nick McGill
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Venus is the hottest
planet in the solar
system.
It rotates the opposite
way of all the other
planets.
One day on Venus is
243 days on earth.
It is covered with
poisonous clouds.
Sun
by Meghan O’neil
The sun is a star
which is made up
mainly of a gas called
hydrogen and a small
amount of helium.
It is about 93
million miles from
earth.
Earth
by Jillian Rokes
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Earth is the 3rd planet
from the sun.
Earth is about 93
million miles from the
sun.
It takes Earth about
365 days to revolve
around the sun.
It is mainly made up
of water.
Asteroid Belt
by Brayden Jones
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There are about
40,000 known
asteroids in an
asteroid belt.
Ceres is the largest
asteroid.
Ceres is as big as
Texas.
Uranus
by Sam Loeffler
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Uranus has 27 different
moons, some are made
of graphite.
Uranus is circled by 11
rings.
Uranus a gas planet.
Uranus is 2,739,000,000
to 3,003,000,000 miles
away from the Sun.
Jupiter
by Sean Smith
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All the planets can fit
inside of it cause it is
so big.
1,000 earths can fit
inside of it.
Jupiter has 16 moons.
One of Jupiter’s
moons is Io and Io
has active volcanoes.
Mercury
by Atticus Stansbury
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One side of Mercury
is hot and the other is
cold.
The smallest planet is
Mercury.
Mercury is closest to
the sun.
Saturn
by Meg Harmon
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Saturn has rings that
are made from ice
rocks, and dust.
If you put Saturn in a
tub of water, it would
float.
Saturn has about 52
moons scientists
keep finding new
ones.
Earth
by Payton Parsons
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The Earth is one out
of two water planets.
The Earth is the fifth
largest planet in our
solar system.
At the equator, the
Earth’s surface
moves 40,000 km in
24 hours.
Jupiter
By Johnny Dean
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Jupiter is one of the
largest planets.
Jupiter can change color.
Jupiter is made mostly of
hydrogen.
Jupiter gives off more
heat then it gets from
sun.
It shines brightly in the
night.
Neptune
by Annika Wilmers
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You can never see
Neptune.
Neptune was the first
ever planet to
probably be discovered in the solar
system.
It is about 4 times
bigger than Earth.
Venus
by Nick McGill
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Venus is the hottest
planet in the solar
system.
It rotates the opposite
way of all the other
planets.
One day on Venus is
243 days on earth.
It is covered with
poisonous clouds.
Mars
by Kate Zachary
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Mars has volcanoes,
canyons, boulders,
craters and clouds of
red dust.
Mars is the last of the
inner planets.
Mars is a desert
planet.
Mars
by Chloe Degan
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I learned that Mars is the
last of the inner planets.
I also learned that the
sand on Mars is made
from red iron oxide.
Do you know that takes
Mars 687 Earths days to
revolve around the sun?
Mars is called the red
planet.
Moon
By Trevor Vollmer
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If you were standing on
the Moon the sky would
always appear dark even
during the daytime.
The Moon is so far from
the Earth. You can’t see
the Earth from all the
sides but one.
It is about 238,900 miles
away from the Earth.
Pluto
By Abby Plank
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Pluto has a moon,
Charon, which is
almost as big as itself.
Pluto is the smallest
dwarf planet.
Pluto has not been
visited by spacecraft
yet. We only have
blurry pictures of its
surface.
Moon
By Emily Carroll
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Did you know the
moon has no
atmosphere?
Did you know that the
moon is the brightest
light in the night sky?
It looks so big and
bright because it is so
close to us compared
to the stars and
planets.
Saturn
by London Emmons
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Did you know Saturn is
visible without using a
telescope.
Seven hundred sixty-four
Earths could fit inside a
hollowed out Saturn.
Saturn is the second
largest planet in our solar
system.
Saturn is mostly made
out of hydrogen and
helium gas.
Asteroid Belt
by Franc Kutilek
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Asteroids are rocky
metallic objects that
orbit the sun.
On one side of the
Asteroid belt there are
gas planets.
On the other side are
rocky planets.
Sun
by Mickey Tvrdik
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The word “sol” means
sun.
The solar system
could be called the
sun system.
Some of the suns
gases are hydrogen.
Venus
by Liam Kaminski
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Venus is the 2 planet
from the sun.
Venus looks yellow
when we see it in the
sky.
The clouds keep the
sun’s heat from
escaping.
Jupiter
By Claire Howell
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Jupiter is made of
gases that swirl
around.
It has no solid crust of
land.
Its great Red Spot is
three times the size of
Earth.