There was a cloud of gas that was spinning so fast it turned into a disc and exploded. So there was enough energy to create the sun and the sun’s gravity is so strong it pulled in rocks to create planets. The solar system does rotate and it rotates counter clockwise same way as the sun. The eight planets in our solar system are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The gas giants in our solar system are Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn and Neptune. The terrestrial planets is Earth, Venus, Mars, and Mercury.
The planets from smallest to largest are Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune , Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter. The solar system also has minor planets, comets, moons, asteroids, dust, and gas.
Our solar system design 1: cut the flaps of the box 2: we taped some string to hold the sun. 3: next we put straws and arranged them to put the other planets. 4:we did splatter paint with glow in the dark paint