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Our Solar System is made out
of eight planets and the Sun. The
Sun is in the centre of our solar
system and the eight planets are
orbiting it. There are eight planets
in our solar system that are:
• One of the biggest Stars is the Sun. The
Sun is a ball of fire which is over
6,000 ̊C. The Sun was born 4.6 billion
years ago. The Sun is Gigantic and very
bright. It is bigger than 1,000 Earths, it is
even known as an ordinary star. There
are a lot of bigger stars than the sun and
the biggest one is Arctorus.
The Sun is 70% hydrogen , 28%
helium and 2% metal. It has a lot
of gravity enough to hold the eight
planets. The sun has enough fuel
for another 5 billion years. After
that, the earth will be known as
the black dwarf. Luckily for us we
won’t be here and we won’t freeze
to death. The Sun is 93 million
miles from earth, that means the
sun has lots of energy because it
takes 8 minutes for the sun’s
brightness to reach our eyes.
Imagine there’s no sun - we would
be in total darkness and we would
be very cold.
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. It circles
the sun faster than all the other planets, which is
why Romans named it after the swift-footed
messenger god Mercury. As the planet nearest the
sun, the surface of Mercury can reach a scorching
840 degrees. Mercury is the smallest planet, it is
only slightly larger than Earth's moon. Since it has
no significant atmosphere to stop impacts, the
planet is pockmarked with craters. For instance,
about 4 billion years ago, a roughly 60-mile-wide
(100-kilometre-wide) asteroid struck Mercury
Venus is the second planet away from the Sun and
the sixth largest. Venus’ orbit is the most circular of
any planet. Venus is the goddess of love and beauty.
The planet is so named probably because it is the
brightest of the planets known to the ancients. It is
the Earth’s twin planet. It's extremely hot and
deadly atmosphere makes it impossible for any
human or astronaut to explore its surface. Its
atmosphere is made up mostly of carbon dioxide.
Venus rotates so slowly that it orbits the sun faster
than it can make one whole rotation on its axis. In
other words, Venus has a longer day than year.
Earth is our home planet and it is the third
planet away from the sun and the fifth
largest in the solar system. The Earth
weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
tons. 70% of the Earth is water and the rest
is land. The earth rotates on its axis more
slowly in March than in September. The
world is not round. It is an oblate spheroid,
flattened at the poles and bulging at the
equator.
Mars is the only planet whose surface can
be seen in detail from the Earth. It is
reddish in color, and was named after the
bloody red God of war of the ancient
Romans. Mars is the fourth closest planet
to the Sun. Mars is a small rocky body
once thought to be very Earthlike. Like
the other terrestrial planets Mercury,
Venus, and Earth—its surface has been
changed by volcanism, impacts from
other bodies, movements of its crust, and
atmospheric effects such as dust storms.
Space Asteroids are made of rock and
metal, mostly nickel and iron. The
Asteroid Belt is a region between the
inner planets and outer planets where
thousands of asteroids are found
orbiting around the Sun. Ceres is the
largest asteroid in the asteroid belt and
is the only dwarf planet in the belt.
Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System. Ancient
Astronomers named Jupiter after the king of the Roman
Gods. Jupiter is the 5th closest planet to our sun.
Jupiter's volume is large enough to contain 1,300
planets the size of Earth. Jupiter rotates faster than any
planet in the Solar System. It rotates so quickly that the
days are only 10 hours long. But it takes 12 Earth years
for Jupiter to complete an orbit around the sun. The
great red spot on Jupiter is a storm that has been going
on for over 300 years. You can fit 100 Earths into
Jupiter's great red spot. Jupiter has a ring just like
Saturn and Uranus.
Saturn is the second largest planet. Only Jupiter
is larger. Saturn has seven thin, flat rings around
it. A couple of planets have rings, but their rings
are much fainter than those around Saturn. The
planet can be seen from Earth with the unaided
eye, but its rings cannot. Saturn was the farthest
planet from the earth that the ancient
astronomers knew about. They named Saturn
after the Roman God of agriculture.
Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun
and is named after the Greek God of the
sky in Latin. It is the only planet whose
name came from a figure in Greek
mythology as opposed to Roman
mythology. Because of the strange way it
spins, nights on some parts of Uranus can
last for more than 40 years. Even though
Neptune is further from the sun, Uranus
is the coldest planet in the solar system.
Uranus and Neptune are both known as
Ice Giants.
Neptune is the stormiest planet. The winds there
can blow up to 1,240 miles per hour, that is three
times as fast as Earth's Hurricanes. Neptune is a
sea blue color due to the methane gas in its
atmosphere. It once had a great dark spot similar
to Jupiter. Neptune only receives 1/900 of the
solar energy that reaches Earth. Neptune has its
own heat source, it emits a quantity of energy 2.7
times greater than it receives. Neptune has 8
known moons. It is 30 times farther from the sun
as is the Earth .It goes around the sun once every
165 Earth Years. The atmosphere is made up of
Hydrogen, Helium and Methane. Neptune has a
rocky core.
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