THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Chelsea Helrigel

What Will We Learn About?

Sun Inner Planets Moon Outer Planets

The Sun

http://www.astr.ua.edu/ay102/Lab7/Lab_7_home.html

Sun

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/sun.htm http://www2.hawaii.edu/~wenzhi/quiz2/facts/sun.html

Star at the center of solar system

The size of 1.3 million Earths

Surface= 11,000 degrees F

Sunspots and Solar Flares

The Inner PlanetsMercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars

http://www.cbk.waw.pl/~kalma/inplanets.php

Mercury

http://nineplanets.org/mercury.html http://www.astromax.org/planets/mercury.htm

Closest to the Sun Eighth largest planet Orbit= 87 days Extremely high

temperatures 48 million miles from

Earth

Venus

http://nineplanets.org/venus.html http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Venus/venus.html

Second from the Sun Sixth largest planet Brightest planet Orbit= 224 days Earth’s “Sister

Planet”162 million miles

from Earth

Earth

http://nineplanets.org/earth.html http://shannonpenrod.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/earths-new-address-is-freaking-me-out/

Third from the Sun Fifth largest planet Only known planet

with life Orbit= 365 days 93 million miles from

the Sun

Mars

http://nineplanets.org/mars.html http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/programs/space/missiontomars.htm

Fourth from the Sun Seventh largest

planet Orbit= 687 days “Red Planet” 36 million miles from

Earth

The MoonEarth

http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/astronomical-information-center

Moon

http://nineplanets.org/luna.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Full_moon.jpeg

Earth’s only moon 5th largest moon in

the solar system Orbit= 23 days “Man on the Moon” First Man on the

MoonNeil Armstrong

The Outer Planets

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto ??

http://www.planetsalive.com/?planet=Main&tab=C

Jupiter

http://nineplanets.org/jupiter.html http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/jupiterfact.html

Fifth from the Sun Largest planet Gas giant Orbit= 11 years 390,682,810 mile from

Earth Great Red Spot

Size of 3 Earths

Saturn

http://nineplanets.org/saturn.html http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/saturnfact.html

Sixth from the Sun Second largest

planet Gas giant Orbit= 29 years Planetary rings 744 million miles

from Earth

Uranus

http://nineplanets.org/uranus.html http://www.feastoffun.com/tag/uranus/

Seventh from the Sun Third largest planet Orbit= 84 years Axial tilt

Parallel Planetary rings

13 2.57 billion miles from

Earth

Neptune

http://nineplanets.org/neptune.html http://www.universetoday.com/21581/neptune

/

Eighth from the Sun Fourth largest planet Orbit= 164 years Planetary rings

3Icy

4.7 billion miles from Earth

Pluto ??

http://nineplanets.org/pluto.html http://www.profilekiss.com/picture/code-107/pluto.html

Is it a planet? Dwarf planet Kuiper Belt

Ninth from the Sun Orbit= 248 years 26 billion miles away

from Earth