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• Composition: all objects (satellites) orbiting the Sun, including the eight major planets and their satellites, asteroids, meteors and comets.

• Approximately 69 moons.

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The Sun Our Sun is a medium yellow star.It´s got a temperature of 6,000 degrees Celsius. It takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth

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Mercury• It´s a rocky

planet with a nickel- iron core.

• 1st planet from the Sun.

• No Moons.

• It´s the fastest planet orbiting the Sun.

• It heats up and cools down very quickly.

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Venus

• It´s a rocky planet.

• It is the brights planet visible from Earth.

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Earth• It´s a rocky

planet covered with water.

• Earth is the only planet in our solar system known to support life.

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Earth and The Moon

• The moon shines because it reflects the light of the Sun.

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Mars

• Mars looks red from the rusty iron dust on its surface.

• It has frozen water beneath the surface or at the polar ice caps.

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Jupiter

• It´s the largest, most massive planet in the solar system.

• It has clouds and immense storms in its atmosphere.

• It has very faint rings.• It´s a gas giant.

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Jupiter’s Red Spot

• It is a long-lasting storm that is larger than the Earth.

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Saturn• Its rings are made of billions of dust and ice.• It´s the only planet with rings that can be seen from Earth

using a simple telescope.• It is huge but it is not dense at all. It would float in water.

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Uranus

• It is tilted onto its side.

• It orbits the Sun with its poles aimed at the Sun.

• It is a gas planet.

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Neptune

• It´s a frozen gas giant as blue as the deepest ocean.

• It has rings but they appear faint.

• It has eight moons.

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Pluto

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Milky Way Galaxy

• Every start visible to the naked eye is part of the Milky Way.

• It cointains over 200 billion stars.

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Comets & Asteroids

• Composition: dust and ice nucleus; long tail of dust and vaporized gases.

• Composition: rocks and metals.

• Ceres, the largest asteroid, was the first one discovered.

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Solar System