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Solar System
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6th Grade
01/04/2011

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Mercury

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabio Ruiz

Definition

The planet Mercury is the closest of the planets to the Sun.

Mercury is:

*heavy     *cool     *has wrinkles     *has no atmosphere     *has no moons

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Venus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabio Ruiz

Definition

The planet Venus has long been one of the most misunderstood of all the inner planets.

Venus is:

 

* dry     * has a liquid molten core     * rotates very slowly

* has no moons     * has an atmosphere

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Earth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabio Ruiz

Definition

The Earth is the biggest of all the terrestrial planets.

 

* The Earth has one moon.  Its name is Luna.  * water bodies cover nearly 70 percent of the Earth's surface. 

* rotates around its own axis that tilts at around 23 degrees.  * The Earth's molten iron core creates a magnetic field.

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Mars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabio Ruiz

Definition
* the only water on Mars is either frozen in the polar caps, or underground.  * Mars has two moons, their names are Deimos and Phobos.   * Mars has higher mountains, and deeper canyons than any other planet.  * Mars has the Solar Systems biggest volcano, Olympus Mons.  * Mars has a North and a South Pole as Earth.
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Jupiter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabio Ruiz

Definition

* This giant planet has no solid surface. 

* Under its atmosphere is a large liquid ocean of hydrogen and water.  * Jupiter has at least 63 moons.  * Jupiter spins really fast.  * Rather than round it is short and fat.

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Saturn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabio Ruiz

Definition
* Its beautiful rings are 169,800 miles wide, but less thick than a football field.  * Saturn has 34 moons.  * Saturn was the god of agriculture, he was called Cronus by the Greeks.  * Under the clouds of methane and helium the sky gradually turns into liquid until it becomes a giant ocean of liquid chemicals.  *  Saturn has several hundred rings.

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Uranus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabio Ruiz

Definition
*  Unlike all the other planets and most of the moons in our Solar System Uranus spins on its side. * Uranus has 27 moons. * It has a large rocky core, and because of the tremendous pressure could possibly contain trillions of large diamonds. * Five of these moons are large, and the rest are smaller. * In astronomy mythology, Uranus was the lord of the skies.
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Neptune

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabio Ruiz

Definition

* Neptune has a giant storm.   * Neptune has six rings which circle the planet.  * Neptune has 13 moons that we know of. 

* Is cold.  * It doesn't have air clouds, it has gas clouds.

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The Moon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabio Ruiz

Definition
* Luna is a beautiful world that lies some 384,400 kilometers from Earth.  * It is littered with mountains, valleys, old volcano sites, and many bowl like holes called Craters.   * You can see it without any telescope, or binoculars.  *  The core of the Moon has almost completely cooled down.  * The moon is not a planet, but a satellite of the Earth.

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Asteroid

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabio Ruiz

Definition

* An asteroid is a large rock in outer space.

* Some can be very large, while others are as small as a grain of sand.   * asteroids do not have enough gravity to pull themselves into the shape of a ball.  * The asteroid belt is divided into an inner belt and an outer belt.  * Asteroids are left over materials from the formation of the Solar System.

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Comets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabio Ruiz

Definition
Comets are made out of dust, and ice. Kind of like a dirty snow ball.  * Comets come from two places:  The Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud.  * Comets don't live very long once they enter the warmer part of the Solar System.  * Comets are small and irregularly shaped objects.  *  Comets put on a spectacular show when they visit the inner solar system.
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The Sun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabio Ruiz

Definition

 

* This star provides all the energy necessary to sustain life on Earth.  * The Sun was born in a vast cloud of gas and dust around 5 billion years ago.  * The Sun burns hydrogen at its core.  * 98% of all matter within the Solar System is found within the Sun.  * The surface of the Sun is much cooler than its atmosphere.

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Meteoroid

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabio Ruiz

Definition
* A meteoroid is a small rock or particle of debris in our solar system.  * A meteoroid that burns up as it passes through the Earth’s atmosphere is known as a meteor.  * The Earth’s atmosphere experiences millions of meteors every day. * Meteors are easier to see during the lower light conditions of night.  * The fastest meteoroids travel through the solar system at a speed of around 42 kilometres per second (26 miles per second).
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The Milky Way Galaxy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabio Ruiz

Definition

* It’s a barred spiral. They have a majestic arms sweeping out from a central hub or bulge of glowing stars. * There’s a supermassive black hole at its heart.  * Galaxies are big, and have lots of mass. 

*  The Milky Way is a flat disk roughly 100,000 light years across and a few thousand light years thick.  * 90% of it is invisible.


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