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The Solar System
By. Tommy Bell and Colton Reed
Mercury
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Is the closet planet to the sun
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Its orbit takes 88 days and is the shortest of all the planets
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It is 57900000 km from the sun
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The diameter of Mercury is 4879 km
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It has no satellites around it
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Its surface temperature ranges from -173 to 427 Celsius
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The dominant atmospheric gas is helium
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The surface gravity is 0.38
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Mercury’s mass is 0.06
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Mercury is cover in craters
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Mercury was once volcanic
Venus
The diameter is 12,104 km
2. Venus has no satellites
3. Its surface temperature is 464 Celsius
4. Its orbit is 225 days
5. Is 10820000 km from the sun
6. Its atmosphere is mainly made of carbon dioxide
7. Venus’s surface gravity is 0.91
8. Its mass is .82
9. Venus diameter is .95
10. Venus’s distance from the sun is 0.72 Au’s
11. Rotates ate 35 kilometers per hour
12. Venus has similar size, density, and mass as earth
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Earth
Its theThird planet from sun
Orbit period is 365.24 days
It completes a rotation in 23 hours and 56 minutes.
Life is possible because it is warm enough for water to exist in
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5. Earth is 149,600,000 kilometers from the sun
6. 12,756 kilometers in diameter.
7. We have one satellite, our moon.
8. -13 to 37 degrees Celsius
9. The dominant atmospheric gases are nitrogen and oxygen.
10. Mass of 1.00
11. Surface gravity is one
12. Only known planet to have life
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It is the fourth closest planet to the sun
it is 22,790,000 kilometers from the sun
Mars is 6,794 kilometers in diameter
It has an orbit period of 687 days.
Rotates once every 24 hours and 37 minutes.
Has two satellites revolving around it
Has a surface temperature of -127 to 37 degrees celsius
Carbon Dioxide is the dominant atmospheric gas.
Has a mass 0.11
Has a surface gravity of 0.38
Mars is made up largely of iron ore.
Orbits at a speed of 24.
Jupiter
Largest planet in milky way galaxy
it is the 5th closest to the sun
First of the outer planets
Diameter of 142,984 kilometers
Orbits the sun in 11.9 earth years
Has the shortest day length of any planet in milky way: 9 hours and 50
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7. Has 16 satellites.
8. Hydrogen and Helium are the dominant atmospheric gases.
9. -153 degrees celsius
10. Jupiter is 778,300,000 kilometers away from the sun
11. Has a mass of 317.8
12. Jupiters surface gravity is 2.53
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Saturn
6th closest planet to the sun
2. Has a diameter of 120,536 kilometers.
3. Saturn Orbits the sun every 29.5 years
4. Rotates rapidly at 10 hours 30 minutes.
5. 18 satellites orbit saturn.
6. Surface temperature of -185 degrees celsius
7. Hydrogen and Helium make up the atmospheres gases.
8. Over Half a billion kilometers away from jupiter
9. It has several rings surrounding it
10. Least dense planet in the solar system
11. Has a surface gravity of 1.07
12. Yellow striped planet.
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Uranus
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Only planet to be discovered since ancient times.
7th planet from the sun
287,100,000 kilometers from the sun
Astronomers have trouble studying uranus
The average temperature is -214 degrees Celsius
Uranus rotates once every 17 hours and 40 minutes
Helium, hydrogen and methane make up atmospheric gases.
Uranus has at least 20 moons and several rings
It orbits once every 84 years
There may be a liquid water methane mix on the surface.
Mass of 14.6
The surface gravity is 0.92
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449,700,000 kilometers from the sun
Its diameter is 49,528
It takes 163.7 years to revolve around the sun
A neptune day is 16 hours and 7 minutes long.
Neptune has at least 8 satellites
Surface temperature of Neptune is negative 225 degrees Celsius
Hydrogen, Helium, Methane make up atmospheric gas
8th planet from the sun
The planet exsiting was predicted before discovered
Named Neptune after the Roman god of the sea
Similar to uranus in size and mass
Has extreme weather on it
Pluto
591,400,000 kilometers from the sun
The smallest planet in the solar system
Made up of mostly methane
2,390 kilometers in diameter
Takes 248.6 years to revolve the sun
Has one moon, Charon
Negative two hundred and thiry six degrees celsius on the surface of
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8) 6.4 days equals one rotation
9) It has a mass of .003
10) It has a surface gravity of 0.09
11) Ninth planet from the sun
12) Has a unusual axis
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