Solar System

By Paige Hayford

The Solar System has eight planets including one Dwarf planet, Pluto.

The Star at the center of Our Solar System is The Sun.

Sun

The Sun is the Star in the center of The Solar System.

The Sun’s temperature is about 9941 degrees! That’s really hot!

Mercury

The planet Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun.

Did you know that Mercury is covered with craters?

Venus

Venus is the Second planet from the Sun.

The first person to visit Venus was Mariner the 2nd in 1962.

Earth

Earth is the planet that humans first lived on, and still lives right now!

Mars Mars is the God of War. Mars is the

Fourth planet from the Sun.

Asteroid Belt

26 large Asteroids have been discovered says some scientists.

Asteroids and Comets only hit the Earth every 100 million years.

JUPITER If you visited

Jupiter, you would be VERY HEAVY!!!!

Most of the storms on Jupiter never end.

Saturn Saturn is known

for its rings.

Saturn is not perfectly round like the other planets.

Uranus Uranus is the

seventh planet from the Sun.

Uranus was the first planet to be discovered with a telescope.

Neptune For many

centuries, people did not know that Neptune existed.

Neptune has 6 rings that circle around Neptune.

Pluto

If you were on Pluto, you would definitely be very light!

Pluto is called a Dwarf planet because it is small.

Comets

Comets are made out of dust and ice. Comets melt in the inner Solar System.

The Milky Way Galaxy

The Milky Way Galaxy has millions of stars in it, and our Sun is just one of them.

There are more Galaxies than just the Milky Way Galaxy .

Constellations

A Constellation is a picture in the sky, at night, made out of Stars.

Constellations are actually very high in the sky at night, even if it looks really close.

Stars Stars are actually big balls of gas,

helium, and other sorts of things! Stars change different colors, they

are not just white.

That’s the Solar System and some extra facts!

Hope you enjoyed!