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Fun Facts About The Solar System?

1.Fun facts about the sun.
2.Fun facts about the 8 Planets.

Well Pluto is not considered as a Planet anymore but I will include it because you said nine planets.

The names of The Planets In Order, (starting with the one closest to the Sun are:

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto

The names of the planets from largest to smallest are:

Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Earth
Venus
Mars
Mercury
Pluto

Mercury and Venus have no Moons

The Earth has one Moon
Mars has two Moons
Jupiter has 4 major moons
Saturn has the most Moons in the Solar System:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Sa…

Uranus has 5 major moons
Neptune has 13 moons.
Pluto has 1 moon, (Charon).

Venus is hotter then Mercury because of the greenhouse effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_…

Mercury: 430 Degrees Celsius
Venus: 470 Degrees Celsius
Earth: 15 Degrees Celsius
Mars: -50 Degrees Celsius
Jupiter: -150 Degrees Celsius
Saturn: -180 Degrees Celsius
Uranus: -210 Degrees Celsius
Neptune: -220 Degrees Celsius
Pluto: -230 Degrees Celsius

Diameter:

Mercury: 5,000 km
Venus: 12,000 km
Earth: 12,800 km
Mars: 7,000 km
Jupiter: 140,000 km
Saturn: 120,000 km
Uranus: 52,000 km
Neptune: 50,000 km
Pluto: 3,000 km

Sun – Planet Distance:

Mercury: 60,000,000 km
Venus: 110,000,000 km
Earth: 150,000,000 km, 93,000,000 miles, 1 AU, (Astronomical Unit)
Mars: 230,000,000 km
Jupiter: 780,000,000 km
Saturn: 1,400,000,000 km
Uranus: 2,900,000,000 km
Neptune: 4,500,000,000 km
Pluto: 6,000,000,000 km

Orbital period:

Mercury: 88 days
Venus: 220 days
Earth: 365.25 days
Mars: 2 years
Jupiter: 12 years
Saturn: 30 years
Uranus: 84 years
Neptune: 160 years
Pluto: 250 years

Planet’s day, (1 spin):

Mercury: 1,400 hours
Venus: 5,800 hours
Earth: 24 hours
Mars: 25 hours
Jupiter: 10 hours
Saturn: 10 hours
Uranus: 17 hours
Neptune: 16 hours
Pluto: 150 hours

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, (the four largest planets) have all got rings. Saturn’s rings being the largest.

Mercury is a small planet, about the same size as our Moon. It has a rocky surface which is covered in craters.

Venus is almost the same size as Earth. It has a rocky surface which is covered in thick clouds of sulphuric acid. The atmosphere is mainly carbon dioxide.

Earth is a blue planet with swirls of cloud from Space and is the only planet with life. It is the right distance from the Sun, with the right chemicals to support life.

Mars, (The Red Planet) is a dry cold desert of red rocks, with huge mountains and canyons. It has a thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide and 2 small moons, (Phobos and Deimos). Mars was the first other planet to be visited by a space-craft.

Jupiter is the largest planet. It has no solid surface. It is mainly liquid hydrogen and helium. The Giant Red Spot is a storm three times the size of Earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Red_S…

Saturn is another ‘gas giant’ very like Jupiter. Her beautiful rings are not solid. They are made of billions of chunks of ice and rock that held together by the pull of Saturn’s gravity.

Uranus is another ‘gas giant’ made of hydrogen and helium. Unlike the other planets it is on its side as it orbits the Sun.

Neptune is very like Uranus, it has a dark spot that is a storm the size of Earth.

Pluto is the Smallest Planet. It has a rocky surface. It has a very thin atmosphere of Methane.

Pluto is the only planet that has not been visited by a space-craft. New Horizons will go past Pluto in 2015.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizon…

Lightning Bolts are the same temperature as the surface of the Sun.

Our Moon was landed on on July 20th 1969 by Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.

All Of The Planets orbit the Sun as an ellipse, (an oval) Pluto being the most elliptical sometimes overtakes Neptune.

The Sun looks 2.5 times larger from Mercury.

Saturn would float if emerged in an ocean as it is less dense than water.

The Asteroid Belt separates the four inner planets from the five Outer Planets.

Liquid in space will form into a sphere because of the surface tension.

Olympus Mons is the Largest Volcano In The Solar System.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Mon…

We know more about Space then the deep oceans.

The odds of being killed by Space Debris is 1 in 5 Billion.

One couple got married in Space.

Sound doesn’t exist in space because there is no medium for the sound to travel.

The Sun:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

Titan’s, (Saturn’s Moon) Surface:

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl…

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The New Solar System Poster …

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