Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Solar System
- The Eight Planets
- Mad Vamipires Eat Mangoes And
Jump Straight Up Noses.
- A planet is something which orbits a Star
- The Sun is our Star. There are eight
planets that orbit our star
- The Sun is really big meaning it has a big Mass. This
also means its gravity is really strong.
- The pull from the Sun's gravity keeps all of the planets in their orbit.
- The Planets
- Inner Planets
- Mercury
- Venus
- Earth
- Mars
- All these Planets come before the Asteroid
Belt and are closer to the Sun.
- Outer Planets
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
- All these Planets come after the Asteroid
Belt and are further away from the Sun then the Inner Planets.
- Pluto is no longer a Planet.
It is a Dwarf Planet.
- The Planets all move in elliptical orbits (egg shaped circles)
- Heat and Light
- Planets DO NOT give
off heat or light
- Stars (like the Sun) DO give
off heat and light
- Information About The Planets
- The Sizes
- The SMALLEST Planet is Mercury.
- The BIGGEST Planet is Jupiter by far.
- The Masses
- Mercury has the SMALLEST mass.
- Jupiter has the BIGGEST mass.
- The Average Distance From Sun (in millions of km)
- Mercury = 58
- Venus = 108
- Earth = 150
- Mars = 228
- Jupiter = 778
- Saturn = 1430
- Uranus = 2870
- Neptune = 4500
- Orbit Times
- Mercury = 88 days
- Venus = 225 days
- Earth = 365 days
- Mars = 687 days
- Jupiter = 12 years
- Saturn = 29 years
- Uranus = 84 years
- Neptune = 165 years
- Beyond The Solar System
- Most of the Stars we see at night are in our own Galaxy
- All the others are so far away that they look small
and fuzzy.
- The Universe is made up of MILLIONS of Galaxies.
- The closest galaxy to us is Andromeda
- At the end of our Solar System there is the 'Kuiper Belt'.
Here is where the Dwarf Planet Pluto is.
- Many other Dwarf Planets like Makemake and
Eris are in this belt