The 9 Planets?Or

The 8 Planets?By Miss O.

Let’s Sing!!

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Size….

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Mercury Closest planet to

the Sun

Its year is only 88 days long, so it’s the fastest moving planet in the solar system

Named after the “speedy messenger” of the gods

Venus Second closest

planet to the sun

Covered with thick clouds, which trap the heat from escaping the hottest planet

Volcanic ridges on the surface

Earth

3rd planet from the Sun

Only known planet to have life

Atmosphere and liquid water

Moderate temperatures

Mars

4th planet from the Sun

Known as the “red planet” named after the god of war

High iron content in the soil

Thin atmosphere

Polar caps appear to be covered with ice

Jupiter 5th planet from the

sun

Largest in the solar system (named after the king of the ancient Roman gods)

Gas giant (made of gas with small, solid cores)

Great Red Spot = a giant storm

Saturn 6th planet from the sun

No surface to walk on, because it is a gas giant

Dazzling set of rings made from thousands of individual little bands called ringlets

1 orbit (1 day on Saturn) = 29 Earth days

Violent wind storms like Jupiter

Uranus

7th planet from the sun

Tipped on its side and rotates on its side

Also has rings Also a gas

giant

Neptune 8th planet from the sun

Named after the Roman god of the sea

Smallest of the gas giants

Wildest weather winds blow at 1,200 miles an hour

Great Dark Spot violent hurricane-type storm

Pluto 9th planet from the sun?

(76 years)

Dwarf planet (2006)

Large moon, Charon

Pluto travels in an egg-shaped orbit around the Sun, sometimes crossing inside the orbit of Neptune to temporarily become the ninth planet again

Eris Dwarf planet (16

miles long by 10 miles wide)

Coldest, most distant planet in our solar system

Discovered in 2005

Moon = Dysnomia