Solar System

MERCURY• By Connor and Aly

Physical Description, Distance from the Sun

• Surface: -170°C to 450°C, very thin atmosphere, vast craters, irregular, cliffs and mountains, thin crust (300-400 miles)

• Inner Core: very large, dense, metallic core

• Distance: 6.2837e7 km or 0.38 AU

Solar Magnitude, Orbital Period, Rotational Period

• Magnitude: +5.7 to -2.3

• Orbit: 88 Earth days, very elliptical

• Rotation: 59 Earth days

Diameter, Mass, Density• Diameter: 4880 km 0.4 Earth’s diameter

• Mass: 328.5e21 kg or 0.055 Earth’s mass

• Density: 5.43 g/cm^3

Satellites, Interesting Facts, Composition

• Satellites: No known moons

• Facts: Mariner 10 was the first man-made craft to land on mercury

• Atmospheric Composition: Hydrogen, Helium, Sodium, Magnesium and more

Jupitar

• Physical Description- Colourful atmospheric features

- diameter = 142,984km• Distance from Sun

- 5.20 AU• Orbital Period

-12 years

• Rational Period- 10 hours

• Equatorial Diameter-142,984 km

• Mass- 1.898E27 kg (317.8 Earth mass)

• Density1.33 g/cm³

Satellites

Facts

• Jupiter has 63 moons• every 100 pounds on Earth = 264

pounds on Jupiter

VenusBy: Marin Schindell

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

• 487 trillion km in density

• Big and bright from the gases

• Sister planet to earth

• Very hot (462 C)

• Radius: 6,052

• Surface area: 460,234,317 km²

DISTANCE FROM THE SUN• Second planet from the sun

• 108,200,000 km From the sun

• Clockwise rotation

• Length of day: 116d 18h 0m

APPARENT SOLAR MAGNITUDE• Apparent solar magnitude: -4.4

IMAGES •

• ---This image is from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus

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• ---This image is from: http://www.mallorcaweb.net/masm/Planeta1.htm

--This image is from: http://www.astronoo.com/pt/artigos/oxigenio.html

URANUS

BY: Prarthana Bhat and Michael Sotnick

• Discovered in 1781• Gas planet • Has bands of

clouds occasionally fainting & appearing

• Nearly same size of Neptune

URANUS

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Uranus

• Density – 1.27 g/cm3

• Mass – 86.81 x 1024 kg (Earth=14.54)

• Atmosphere

• 83% Hydrogen

• 15% Helium

• 2% Methane (Gives blue tint)

URANUS

http://www.space.com/45-uranus-seventh-planet-in-earths-solar-system-was-first-discovered-planet.html

• Rotational Period – 84.02 Earth Years

• Solar Magnitude: +5.9m

• 2.88 Billion Km from sun (19.2 AU)

• 27 known moons

URANUS

http://img0.mxstatic.com/wallpapers/4b43f69223f0a9f6d91bd57cd62898f6_large.jpeg

• Discovered by William Henschel on March 31, 1781.

• First Planet discovered by Telescope

• Surface Temperature= -197oC

• Gravity: only 91% of the gravity on Earth

URANUS

http://starcityastrology.wordpress.com

Pluto

Small RockyIcy/Cold

Mass – 1.309 x 10 24

Distance – 5.9 billion km

157x = 1x

Density – 2.03 ± .06 g/cm³

1,400 km

Satellites (moons)

Orbital Period – 247.68 years

Rotational period – 6.387 days

Interesting Facts

• Discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh

• Surface temp. – 44 k (-229.15°C)

• Composition – CO₂, CH₄, N, H₂O

Neptune

Orbital period - 165 earth yearsRotational period (equatorial) of 16 hours and 6 minutes

Equatorial diameter – 49,528 kmMass – 1.0241x1026 kgDensity – 1.64 g/cm3

4,503,000,000 km from the sunSolar magnitude – 7.8

13 natural satellites/moons

4th largest planetSmallest gas giant

Diameter is 3.9x that of earthVoyager 2 visited in 1989

✤ fourth planet from sun

✤ second smallest

✤ high concentrations of iron oxide (rust)

✤ thin atmosphere

MARS

✤ 639E21 kg (which is 0.107 Earths mass)

✤ 227,900,000 km away from the sun

✤ 3.93 g/cm(3)

✤ 687 day orbital cycle

✤ 24:37:36 rotational period

✤ diameter of 6,779 km (53% of earths)

✤ Phobes and Deimos (captured asteroids)

✤ Phobes moves closer every year

✤ 30+ to -191 F

The Sun, solar system Assignment

Also known as a yellow dwarf star

Looks: A bright hot yellowy orange sphere

Some stats

The sun’s diameter is 1,391,000 km.

Mass:1.9891*1e30

Surface temperature is 5,778 k.

The core temperature is 15, 600, 000 k.

Interesting facts

planets revolve around the sun.

looks: bright hot yellow sphere.

25 million years to revolve around the galaxy

74% hydrogen, 24% helium other 2% is heavier elements.

Gases that make the sun

References

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/space/sun

.html

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/photos/sun-gallery/

http://palmtreeofdeborah.blogspot.ca/2012/04/what-is-really-going-on-with-2012.html

gojulesgo.com:2011:05:16:this-ones-a-real-gas:.webloc

blogs.telegraph.co.uk:.webloc

babblefrommyhead.wordpress.com:.webloc

By: Cameron and Nicholas