Solar system 2a 2011

SOLAR SYSTEM2A

2011

EARTHBY MEGAN QUINN

The earth is the biggest of all the terrestrial planets.

The earth’s temperature, weather and atmosphere are just right to keep us alive.

Earth was the mother of the mountains , valleys , streams and all other land formations.

ASTEROID BELTBY CONOR BUCKLEY

Ida is a neat little asteroid about 36 miles wide. It has its own little moon called Dacty.

The asteroid belt is divided into an inner belt and outer belt.

The outer belt includes asteroids 250 million miles beyond the sun.

ASTEROID BELTBY QUINN MARTIN

ASTEROID BELT BY QUINN MARTIN

Asteroids are left over materials of the solar system.

26 very large asteroids have been discovered.

If all the asteroids were squashed together up into one planet it would be smaller than our moon.

SATURNBY PORTIA L.

Saturn is most well known for its rings.

They are very thin and could fit between two football posts.

Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune also have rings.

Saturn has 53 official moons.

SATURNBY PETER MCANDREWS

Saturn was the Roman god of agriculture. Saturn was named after him.

Saturn is the furthest plant from Earth that can be seen without the help of a telescope.

The rings are not solid but are made up of particles of ice, dust, and rocks.

EARTHBY LEAH KEITH

The Earth is the biggest of all the terrestrial plants.

Earth is covered with 70% water.

Scientist use what they know about Earth to guess what the other planets might be like.

JUPITERBY LINDSEY KOSTER

If you weigh 70 pounds on Earth on Jupiter you would weigh 185 pounds.

Jupiter is the largest planet by far in the solar system.

The Earth could fit inside Jupiter more than 1,000 times.

Jupiter has rings they only show when Jupiter passes the sun.

PLUTOBY LIAM DOYLE

Pluto has three moons. Pluto was the only

planet named by a kid. Because Pluto is so

small you would be very light if you visited.

MARSBY JOE FOSTER

If you weigh 74 pounds on Earth you would weigh about 27 pounds on Mars.

Mars orbit takes it just inside of the asteroid belt.

Mars has two moons their names are Deimo, and Phobo.

JUPITERBY AIDAN FIRMATURE

You can see four of Jupiter’ s moons with a pair of binoculars at night.

Jupiter is considered a gas giant because it does not have a solid surface.

Jupiter spins really fast; it takes 10 hours to go from night to day in Jupiter.

JUPITERBY NATALIE MCFADDEN

The Earth could fit inside Jupiter more than 1000 times.

Jupiter is considered a gas giant because it does not have a solid surface.

Jupiter is a very stormy planet.

MARSBY NICK THULL

Mars was named after the Roman god of war and agriculture.

Mars once had a lot of rivers and lakes, but now it doesn’t-only frozen water.

Mars is called the Red Planet because it has red dirt and rocks.

MARSBY RAIN EMMONS

Once Mars had rivers, steams, lakes and an ocean.

Mars has two moons and their names are Deimos and Phobos.

Mars has a volcano that is the biggest in the Solar Systems.

MERCURYBY ALEX BULLOCK

You would weigh 27 pounds if you weighed 70 pounds on Earth.

Mercury has wrinkles because the crust on Mercury is rocky.

You can see Mercury In the early morning or in the late after noon.

MERCURYBY ISAAC KENNEY

If you weigh 70 pounds on Earth you weigh 27pounds g on Mercury.

Mercury is called the morning star because it shines in the morning before the Sun.

Mercury orbits closest to the Sun and the fastest.

MERCURYBY MACY MOLLNER

In astronomy Mercury was the Roman version of the Greek god Hermes.

If you moved to Mercury you would not weigh as much as you do on Earth.

Mercury is also called the morning star.

NEPTUNEBY MARY BALTIMORE

Neptune was discovered by Johann Galle and Heinrich D’Arrest in 1846.

Neptune was named after the god of the water and sea.

In 2011 Neptune will complete its first orbit around the sun.

NEPTUNEBY SAGE MALEKI

If you weigh 70 pounds on earth then you would weigh 78 pounds on Neptune.

It takes 16 hours and 17 minutes to rotate.

In Neptune the atmosphere is a large white cloud that twirls around rather quickly.

PLUTOBY ADAM PARRA

The Hubble space craft is the only craft to see Pluto which is a dwarf planet.

Pluto is like an egg. Pluto is 700 pounds.

Pluto has three moons the largest one is called Craron.

PLUTOBY MOLLY MONAHAN

The name Pluto was named by an 11 year old kid named Venetia Burney.

Pluto is smaller than 7 moons in the solar system.

It changed from a planet to a dwarf planet on August 24, 2006.

SATURNBY BRENDAN BUCKLEY

Saturn has 53 official moons.

It is the second largest planet in the solar system.

Saturn is the least dense planet in the Solar System.

SUNBY ANNA AMBROSE The sun was born in a

vast amount of gas and dust around five billion years ago.

Thermonuclear fusion is the process in which a star produces its own light. The sun does this.

The Romans called the sun Sol which means in English-Sun.

SUNGRACE ELLIS

The romans call “sun” sol.

The sun was born in a big cloud around 5 billion years ago.

The sun produces it’s own heat, light, and energy.

SUNBY KELLY KOZOL

The sun is so large that the earth could easily fit inside the sun a million times.

The sun creates a sort of wind known as the solar wind.

The sun can make you blind if you look at it too long.

URANUSBY ANNA THIBODEAU

Uranus has 27 moons,5 are big and the rest are small.

Uranus also has rings, but they don’t stretch out as far as Saturn.

Just like Jupiter and Saturn Uranus is made of gas but it’s a little different.

URANUSBY JOSEPH JULIANO

It would take a lot of years to get to Uranus.

Uranus has 27 moons.

The surface of Uranus is an ocean of gas.

URANUSWILL KUBAT

Uranus was named after one of the god who was the lord of the sky.

Uranus is bigger than the Earth.

Uranus has 27 moons.

VENUSBY DANIEL KLEINSMITH

If you weigh 70 pounds on Earth you weigh 63 pounds on Venus.

Venus is almost identical to Earth in size.

Venus used to have water on the planet.

VENUSJACOB BEISCH

It was named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.

Venus has an atmosphere.

On Venus if you had water it would evaporate and make Venus hotter.

VENUSBY WILLIAM BYRNES

Venus is so close to Earth it appears as the brightest planet in the night sky.

If I were 70 pounds I would weigh 63 pounds on Venus.

Venus has volcanoes, mountains, and sand joust like Earth.