whizzpopbang/schools Our solar system has eight known planets, which all orbit the Sun. You can make an awesome model, showing the planets in order of their distance from the Sun. Mercury Venus Jupiter Saturn Mars Earth Neptune The model isn’t to scale because if you cut out a Sun measuring 10 cm across, the Earth at the same scale would measure less than one millimetre, and be placed 10.75 metres away! You will need: • Scissors • Sticky tape or glue stick solar system Year 5 craft your own... © Launchpad Publishing Ltd 2018, illustrations © Clive Goodyer Sun Uranus
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Our solar system has eight known planets, which all orbit the Sun. You can make an awesome model, showing the planets in order of their distance from the Sun.
Mercury
Venus
Jupiter
Saturn
Mars Earth
NeptuneThe model isn’t to scale because if you cut out a Sun measuring 10 cm across, the Earth at the same scale would measure less than one millimetre, and be placed 10.75 metres away!
You will need: • Scissors• Sticky tape
or glue stick
solar system
Year 5 craft your own...
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The Sun is so massive it contains 99.86% of the entire mass in the solar system.
SUNDiameter 1,391,016 km
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What you do: 1. Cut out the planets, the Sun and
the connecting strips.
2. Attach one end of each connecting strip to the back of the correct planet with sticky tape or glue.
3. Attach the other end of the connecting strips to the back of the Sun, and you’re finished!
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Mer
cury
57
.9 m
illion
km
from
Sun
, dia
met
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,780
km
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104
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eart
h 14
9.6
milli
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12,
756
km
mar
s 22
7.9
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6,7
80 k
m
jupi
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778.
6 m
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km
from
Sun
, dia
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9,82
2 km
satu
rn
1,433
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km
from
Sun
, dia
met
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16,4
64 k
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724
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A solar system is a star and all the objects that orbit around it. Our solar system, with the Sun at the centre, has eight planets, five known dwarf planets, 149 known moons (with another 25 possible moons being investigated), more than 715,000 asteroids, more than 3,400 comets, and countless meteoroids and smaller particles of debris, left over from when the solar system formed. Much of this debris can be found in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and the Kuiper belt beyond Neptune.
Not to scale
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Mercury has ‘w
rinkles’ called Lobate Scarps, up to a m
ile high
A day on Venus lasts longer
than a year on Venus
The Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing,
at about 17 milliseconds per 100 years
Mars has the largest know
n volcano in the solar system
, called Olym
pus Mons
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a huge storm
that has raged for at least 350 years
Saturn’s rings are made of lum
ps of ice and rock, some
as small as a grain of sand, others as large as a house
Uranus’s axis tilts at alm
ost 98 degrees, m
eaning it orbits the Sun lying on its side
A year on N
eptune lasts 165 Earth years
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