The planets

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2. Slide Show-The Planets - 3. All About The Planets of the Solar System By Alexis Ashley Jeroson Kim Sierra 4. Where does the word planet comes from? The word planet isGreek for wanderer,because the planetsappear to wanderaround thesky, disconnectedfrom the stars andeach other. 5. The nine planets areMercury SaturnVenus UranusEarth NeptuneMarsPlutoJupiter 6. These are the inner planetsMercuryEarth Venus Mars 7. These are the outer planets Jupiter UranusSaturn NeptunePluto 8. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and the eight largest. Mercury looks like a ball of graySwiss cheese. During the day Mercury is awhooping 800 degreesFahrenheit, much hotter than theoven in your home. Mercury is so hotit will melt a tin pan. 9. Venus is the second largest planetfrom the sun and the fifth largest. Venus is the hottest planet in our solar. Astronauts cant land on Venus becausethey would get burned up by the planets900- degree temperature. The surface of Venus has many craterswhich were made by meteorites andasteroids crashing into the planet. 10. Earth is the third planet fromthe sun and the fifth largest. Earth is the only planet where humanscan live a normal life. Earth atmosphere contains oxygen for usto breathe, protects us from the sunsheat and keeps our planet warm. Earth is covered by so much water thatits entire planet looks blue from outerspace. 11. Mars is the fourth planet fromthe sun and the fourth largest. Mars is a dusty, orangish-red desertplanet. The temperature on Mars can be very,very cold, even on the warmest day. 12. Jupiter is the fifth planet from thesun and by far the largest planet. Jupiter is so large that all of the otherplanets in the solar system could fit into it. You couldnt stand on Jupiter becausethere is nothing to stand on. It is madeup mostly of gas and liquid. Jupiters ferocious winds blow its thickred, orange, brown, and white cloudsaround, always changing the way theplanet looks. 13. Saturn is the sixth planet from thesun and the second largest. Saturn is famous for the bright, flat ringsthat floats around its middle. Saturn is a very large gas planet whichspins very rapidly on its axis. Saturns atmosphere has winds which canblow at over 1800 kilometers per hour 14. Uranus is the seventh planet fromthe sun and the third largest. Uranus is one of the smaller giant, gas planet in oursolar system. Uranus atmosphere is made up of hydrogen, heliumand methane gas, which gives it its blue color. Uranus is so far away that, even with a telescope,the icy planet looks like a tiny greenish-blue disk. 15. Neptune is the eight planet from the sun and the fourth largest. Neptune and Uranus are both large, gasplanets that look like big-blue green ballsin the sky. It is so cold on Neptune that you wouldneed skin thicker than a polar bear to staywarm. The planet has large dark, circle on itsurface which are believed to be storms. 16. Pluto is usually the farthest planet from the sun and the smallest. Pluto is colder than other planets because it isso far away from the sun. Pluto is usually the farthest planet from thesun, but sometimes Neptune is because Plutosegg-shaped orbit takes it inside Neptunes orbitfor about 20 years out of every 250 years. 17. Bibliography Arnett, Bill (2002) The nine planets. Retrieved November 15, 2002,from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nine planets.html Berkowitz, R., & Eisenberg, M (1990). Big6. Retrieved November 18,2002 from Big6 web site: http://www.big6.com Branley, F. (1981) The planets in our solar system. New York:HarperCollins. California Institute of Technology. (1995-2001) Welcome to ourplanets. Retrieved Nov 18, 2002 fromhttp://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome.htm Star Child Team (n.d.). The planets. Retrieved Nov 20, 2002. fromhttp://StarChild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system 18. The End