By: Laura Brink

EDU 290

11:00

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