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By James
 About 1,300,ooo earth would fit inside of the sun
 In about 130 million more years and the sun will
consume the earth
 soon the sun will collapse in it self and will be the size
of are planet
 Mercury is the smallest plant in the universe it is
4,879 across
 Living on mercury for a year is only 88 days
 Did you know that mercury has wrinkles
 Did you know that a day on Venus is longer then a year
 Venus is often called earths sister planet
 Last thing is Venus rotates in the opposite direction to
most planets
 Did you know that earth rotation is gradually slowing
 A long time a go earth was believed to be the center of
the solar system
 Earth has a powerful magnetic field
 Did you know that Mars and earth have the same land
mass
 Mars is home to the tallest mountain in the solar
system
 Only 18 missions to Mars have been successful
 Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the solar
system
 The ancient Babylonians were the first to record their
sighting of Jupiter
 Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets
 Saturn can be seen with the naked eye
 Saturn was known to the ancients including the
Babylonians and far Eastern observers
 Saturn is the flattest planet
 Uranus was officially discovered by Sir William
Herschel in 1781
 Uranus turns on its axis once every 17 hours 14 minutes
 Uranus makes one trip around the sun every 84 Earth
years
 Neptune was not known to the ancients
 Neptune spins on its axis very rapidly
 Neptune is the smallest of the ice giants
 The dark side of the moon is a myth
 The rise and fall of the tides on earth is caused by the
moon
 The Moon is drifting away from the Earth
 Pluto is named after the Greek god of the underworld
 Pluto was reclassified from a plant to a dwarf plant in
2006
 Pluto was discovered on February 18th 1930 by the
Lowell Observatory
 The closer you are to a black hole the slower time
moves
 Stars and all sort of things can get suck in to a black
hole
 The point of no return is called event horizon
 While asteroid impacts were more common in the past
they aren't as frequent today
 An Asteroid impact some 65 million years ago
contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs
 Earth suffers an impact from an abject the size of a
football field about once every 2,000 years
 The nucleus of a comet is made of ice and can be as
small as a few meters across to giant boulder a few
kilometers across
 The closest point in a comets orbit to the sun is called
perihelion. The most distant point is called aphelion
 Comet orbits are usually elliptical
 Millions of meteoroids travel through Earths
atmosphere each day
 When a meteor encounters our atmosphere and is
vaporized it leaves behind a trail. That burning
meteoroid is called a meteor
 The appearance of a number of meteors occurring in
the same part of the sky over a period of time is called
meteor shower
 Every star you see in the night sky is bigger and
brighter than our sun
 You cant see millions of stars on a dark night
 Stars are black bodies
 Phobos,s orbit is so fast it would appear to an observer
on the planet to rise in the west and set in the East
twice each Martian day.
 Neither Phobos nor Deimos have atmospheres. They
are to small with no volatiles to create an atmosphere
and their gravity too low to retain one
 Lo has more than 400 active volcanoes on its surface