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The Super Solar System
By: Laura Bart
California State Standard:
• Students know the
solar system includes
the planet Earth, the
Moon, the Sun, eight
other planets and
their satellites, and
smaller objects, such
as asteroids and
comets.
What is in the Solar System?
• The Solar system is the objects that orbit
the sun.
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Planets
Moons
Comets
Asteroids
Let’s talk about planets!!
• A planet is a large and round body that orbits a star
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and shines with reflected light from a star.
There are 9 planets in our solar system:
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My mother very educated mother just sold us nine pizzas.
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Mercury
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Planet closest the sun
Second smallest plane
Covered with craters
No moons or rings
It is about the size of
Earth’s moon
• Goes around the sun
about 4 times, while the
earth only goes around
the sun once.
Venus
• Earths nieghboor
• No moons or rings
• Very hot and thick
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atmosphere
Brightest object in sky
besides sun and
moon (looks like
bright star)
Covered with craters,
volcanoes, and
mountains
It is the sixth largest
planet.
Earth
• It’s our planet!!!!!!
• Only planet with known
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life and with water.
About 4 1/2 billion years
Third planet from sun
Atmosphere composed of
composed of Nitrogen,
Oxygen and other gases
(1%).
Mars
• Fourth planet from sun
• In night-time mars appears to be a
reddish color.
• On the surface of mars there are
volcanoes and huge dust storms
Jupiter
• It is the largest planet
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in the solar system
Jupiter is about 11
times the size of
Earth
Has a giant red spot
seen on the surface
of Jupiter
Second brightest
planet next to Venus
Saturn
• One of the largest planets
• Known for the giant rings around the
planet
• Saturn has 31 moons surrounding it
• Saturn has been explored
• It is visible at night from Earth
Uranus
• Covered with clouds
• Has 27 moons
• Faint rings surround
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Uranus
7th planet from the
sun
Neptune
• Arcs surround the
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7 moons surround
Neptune
Very similar to hole in
the ozone layer,
Neptune is known to
be “Dark Spot”
Pluto
• Sometimes it is not thought of as a planet
• It is the farthest planet away from the sun
• Pluto is so far away that it has not been
visited by anyone on earth or anywhere!!!
Comets and Asteroids
• Comets
• Asteroids
• small icy bodies
• About 100,000
asteroids are between
• Comets give off gases
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and dust as they pass
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travel pass the sun
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Mars and Jupiter
Asteroids are believed
to be billions of years
old