Solar System
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The Solar System
THE PANETS FROM LEAST TO GREASTEST
MERCURY,VENUS,EARTH,MARS,JUPITER,SATURN,URANUS,NEPTUNE
MERCURY
- The distance from Mercury to the sun is 35.98 million miles.
- Mercury is best seen during twilight
- One year on Mercury is 88 days
- Mercury is only the second hottest planet
- Mercury is the most cratered planted in our solar system
VENUS
- On Venus it snows metal and rains selphuric acid
- Venus is named after a Roman goddess of love and beauty the mass of Venus is 4,867,320,000,000,000 billion
- Veins is sometimes referred to as earth's sister
- On Venus one day is longer than one year
- Venus rotates in the opposite direction than most planets
EARTH
- 238,900 miles.
- Earth is 4.543 billion years old.
- Population 7.125 billion (2013).
- Earth is a terrestrial panet.
- The mass of earth is 5,972,190,000,000,000 billion kg.
MARS
- Mars is named after the Roman god of war
- Mars is the second smallest planet after mercury
- Only 16 out of 39 missions to Mars were successful
- Pieces of Mars as been found on earth
JUPITER
- Jupiter as four main moons call Lo, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto
- Jupiters nickname is giant
- Jupiters interior is made of rock metal and hydrogen compounds
- Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system
- Jupiter has the shortest days of all the planets
SATURN
- Saturn's upper atmosphere is divided into bands of clouds
- Saturn is mostly made of hydrogen
- Saturn has 150 moons and moonlets
- Saturn is the flattest planet
- Saturn can be seen with naked eye
URANS
- William Herschel discovered URANS in 1781
- It takes 84 earth day for Uranus to orbit the sun
- Uranus's wind can reach up to 900 km per hour
- Uranus is often called ice giant
- The voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to make it to Uranus
NEPTUNE
- Neptune spins on its axis very rapidly
- Neptune is the smallest of the ice giants
- Neptune has a very active climate
- Neptune only has four moons
- Only one spacecraft has flown by neptune
MODEL
A PHYSICAL REPRESENTATION OF AN OBJCET
COMET
AN ICY BODY THAT IN PART OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
HELIOSHEPERE
A BUBBLE IN SPACE THAT IS BLOWN INTO THE INTERELLAR MEDIUM BY THE SOLAR WIND
GALILEAN MOONS
THE 4 MOONS OF JUPITER DISCOVERED BY GALILEO IN JANUARY 1610
ASTEROIDS
ARE A CLASS OF SMALL SOLAR SYSTEM BODIES IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM THEY HAVE ALSO BEEM CALLED PLANETOIDS ESPECIALLY THE LAGER ONES
METEROIDS
A SAND TO BOULDER SIZE PIECE OF DEBRIS INT HE SOLAR SYSTEM
METEOR
THE VISIBLE PATH OF A METEOROID THAT HAS ENTERED EARTH ATMOSPHERE. THEY USALLY BURN UP 40 TP 70 MILES ABOVE EARTH
METERORITE
AN OBJECT ORIGINATING IN OTER SPACE THAT SURVIVES IMPACT WITH EARTH
SOLAR SYSTEM
CONSISTS OF THE SUN AND ASTRONOMICAL OBJECTS GRAVITATIONALLY BOUND IN OBIT AROUND IT
KUIPER BELT
IS A REGION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
OORT CLOUD
A HYPOTHESIZED CLOUD OF COMETS WHICH MAY LIE ROUGHLY 50,000 AU FROM THE SUN
