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Solar System
Solar system
By
Cinoi Littlejohn
Emily Bercel
Solar System
Mercury
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.
 It takes 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.
 It takes a day and a half to make one year.
 Mercury has no atmosphere.
 Mercury is a Terrestrial planet.
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Venus
It is covered with thick clouds of that
makes a greenhouse affect that makes it
very hot.
 It has no moons!
 The rotation around the sun is 225 earth
days.
 Venus is a terrestrial planet.
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Earth
One year is 365 earth days.
 Only planet that has life as we know it.
 Every 2 years the sun, earth and mars line
up witch is called a opposition.
 Earth is a terrestrial planet.
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Mars
The rotation around the sun takes 24
hours and 37 minutes.
 It is named after the god of war of ancient
Romans.
 It is the 4th closets planet to the sun.
 Mars is a terrestrial planet.
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Jupiter
It is the biggest planet in our solar system.
 It takes 12 years to orbit the sun once.
 It takes 10 hours for one rotation.
 Jupiter is a gas planet.
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Saturn
It is the second largest planet in our solar
system.
 Named after a Roman god.
 Its temperature is -178 degrees c.
 Saturn is a gas planet.
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Uranus
It takes 84 years to orbit the sun once.
 4 seasons last 20 years!
 It orbits on its side.
 It has fainted rings.
 Uranus is a gas planet.
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Neptune
It is also know as the blue giant.
 It atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and
helium.
 Neptune was the god of the sea.
 Neptune is a gas planet.
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Reference page
Google
 student center
 the planets
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Glossary
Terrestrial planets- the name often given
to the four inner planets.
 Gas planets- the name often given to the
outer planets.
 Orbit- the path of an object as it revolves
around another object in space.
 Revolution- the movement of an object
around another object.
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Glossary
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Rotation- the spinning motion of a planet on its axis.
Axis- an imaginary line that passes through earth center.
Greenhouse- the process by which heat is trapped in the
atmosphere by water vapor.
Asteroid belt- the region of the solar system between the
orbits of mars and Jupiter where many asteroids are
found.
Asteroid- rocky objects revolving around the sun that are
too small and numerous to be considered planets.
Atmosphere- the envelope of gasses that surrounds
earth or other planets.