Solar System
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Transcript of Solar System
By: Laura Brink
EDU 290
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THE SOLAR SYSTEM
What Is The Solar System? The solar system is everything that
orbits around the sun. Including the planets, comets, and asteroids.
Split into Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
And Outer Planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and “Pluto”
The Sun Center of our
Universe
Largest object in our Solar System
Every planet orbits the Sun
Mercury Closest planet to
sun
Covered with wrinkles and craters
1 day on mercury = 58-1/2 earth days
Mercury has no moon
36 million miles from the sun
Venus 2nd closest to sun
Many volcanoes and mountains
Actually warmer than mercury
Very, very dry, almost no water
No moons
67 million miles from the sun
Earth 3rd planet from the
sun
30% covered by land
70% covered by water
Earth has one moon
93 million miles from the sun
Mars 4th planet from sun
“Red Planet”
2 moons
Contains the solar systems largest volcano
142 million miles from the sun
Jupiter 5th planet from the sun
Largest planet in the solar system
Very stormy planet
No solid surface, all gas
50 official moons, 12 unofficial moons
483 million miles from sun
Saturn 6th planet from sun
7 rings
Rings made up of ice, dust, and rocks
53 official moons, 9 unofficial moons
888 million miles from sun
Uranus 7th planet from sun
Only planet that spins on its side
Surface believed to be a huge ocean that is 5000 degrees Fahrenheit
Also has rings surrounding it
27 moons
1784 million miles
Neptune 8th planet from sun
Blue planet with white clouds
Very windy
13 moons
2794 million miles from sun
Pluto 9th “planet” from sun
Because it is so small in 2006 it was changed from planet to dwarf planet, so it is not considered part of our solar system anymore
3 moons
3647 million miles
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Extra information about the Solar System
Comets –mixture of ices (both water and frozen gases) and dust
Asteroid Belt– seperates the two parts of the solar system. Made up of small rock formations
Comet
Asteroid belt
Special Thanks To: http://www.kidsastronomy.com/
http://www.guangxiedu.net/157/origin-of-solar-system.html
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/photos/sun-gallery/
http://www.realmagick.com/planet-mercury
http://www.solarspace.co.uk/Venus/venus.php
http://cae2k.com/alton-brown-photos-0/planet-earth-from-space.html
http://twittface.net/beautiful-universe/mars/
Special Thanks To: Cont.
http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Neptune/NeptunePlanet.html
http://www.spacestationinfo.com/physical-characteristics-uranus.htm
http://tracinguniverse.blogspot.com/2012/01/dark-planet-pluto.html
http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_8.htm
http://nineplanets.org/comets.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap950826.html
http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/4376.aspx