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Our Solar SystemBy: Aspen Cushing
To Begin…Nine planets
We live on plant Earth
All the planets orbit around the Sun due to a gravitational pull
This is our Solar System
EarthIt is said to look like a “Giant blue marble with puffy clouds”
We are the only planet to have life
We have 365 days a year here and 24 hours in an entire day
Earth is mostly covered by water
MercuryPlanet closest to the Sun
800 degrees in daytime
300 degrees below at night
Second smallest
Has no moon unlike Earth
VenusVenus gets hotter than Mercury around 860 degrees
Thick atmosphere
Second closet planet
In a telescope can phase like the moon
Rotates east to west
Mars4.6 Billions years old
141 million miles from Sun
Fourth plant
Witness season changes from a telescope
Average temperature -67 degree
Day little over 24 hours
Jupiter484 millions miles from the Sun
Beautiful colors
85% hydrogen 15% helium
Similar to Sun
Largest plant
1.3 dense in water
SaturnSecond largest plant
Can be seen from a telescope
Ring can stretch 84,000 miles
Rings made of ice and other particles
Covered with bands of colors
Day is 10 hours 39 minutes
UranusGas giant
1.8 billions miles from the Sun
Has 27 moons
Average day is 17.2 hours
Has a magnetic field
NeptuneSurface temperature -350 degrees
Core extremely hot
Winds are 1,200 mph
Volume of 60 Earths
Methane causes color
SunCenter of Solar System
4.5 billions years old
Star
99% mass of Solar System
16 millions degrees Kelvin
383 billion trillion kilowatts of energy
Sourceshttp://cosmicdiary.org/blogs/arif_solmaz/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/solar_system1.jpg
http://www.astronomy-for-kids-online.com/thesun.html