Solar system

Mercury,Venus, Earth, Mars,
Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus,
Neptune

Mercury
Is the second hottest plantet
No moons
Has no rings
Smallest planet
A third of the size of earth

Venus
No moons
Hottest planet
Terrestrial planet
0.72AU away from sun

Earth
1moon
No rings
70% ocean
There's life
Third planet from the sun

Mars
Fourth one from the sun
2 moons
2 smallest planet
Called red planet
Terrestrial planet

Jupiter
Fifth planet from the sun
67 moons
Largest planet
The Great Red Spot is a massive storm on Jupiter
Made of gas

Saturn
Sixth planet from the sun
Second largest planet
Called the ring system
62 moons
Least dense planet

Uranus
First planet to be discoverd
Seventh planet from sun
Third largest planet
Referred to as the ice giant
27 moons

Neptune
14 moons
5 rings
Eighth planet from sun
The farthest from the sun
And the third largest planet

MODEL

COMET

HELIOSPHERE

GALILEAN MOONS

ASTROID

• Are a class of small solar system bodies in our solar system they have also been called planetoids especially the larger ones

METEOROIDS

• A sand to bolder size piece of debris in the solar system

METEOR

• The visible path of a meteoroid that has entered the earths atmosphere they usually burn up to 40 to 70 miles above the earths

METEORITE

• An object originating in outer space that survives impact with earth

SOLAR SYSTEM

• Consists of the sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it

KUIPER BELT

• Is a region of the solar system beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune to approximately 50AU from the sun it is similar to the asteroid belt but is much larger 20 times as wide and 20 to 200 times as massive

OORT CLOUD

• A hypothesized cloud of comets which may lie roughly 500,000AU from the sun

ASTRONOMICAL UNIT (AU)

• A unit of length equal to about (149,597,870.7 kl) or (92,955,807.3 mi.) or approximately the earth/sun distance apart.