Our Solar System

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Our Solar System

• Sixth Grade Science
• Mrs. Wade

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Name the Nine Planets

• Hint My Very Excellent Mother Just
• Sent Us Nine Pizzas.
• Click on light bulb

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Planets

• Mercury Jupiter
• Venus Saturn
• Earth Uranus
• Mars Neptune
• Pluto
• Discussion whether a real planet

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Heavenly Bodies

• Asteroids large ice, rocks in atmosphere
• Meteoroids-ice, rocks, gases in atmosphere
• Meteors- ice, rocks, gases in earths atmosphere
• Meteorites- ice, rocks, gases on earth surface
• Stars- emits light
• Sun- closest star to earth

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DR. E

• Where would you find a meteoroid?
• Where would you find a meteor?
• Where would you find a meteorite?

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Remember DR. E
OUTER SPACE
EARTHS SURFACE
Go past planets
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Mercury

• Mercury- closest to the Sun
• Extreme temperature ranges
• Magnetic field surrounding planet

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Venus

• Earths Twin in mass and size
• High temperatures
• Winds that blow hundreds MPH
• Retrograde "orbit (Opposite of earth rotation)

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Earth

• Only planet to support life
• Made up of mostly water
• Third planet from the sun
• Takes 365 days to orbit the sun

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Mars

• Fourth planet from the sun
• The Red Planet due to rusty color
• Mountains, canyons, ice caps

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Jupiter

• 4th planet from sun
• Beginning of outer planets
• Has at least 61 moons
• Largest planet
• Giant red spot

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Saturn

• Saturn has 100s of rings
• Many moons
• Would float in water

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Uranus

• Giant gas planet
• Blue green color
• Surface clouds
• Visited by Voyager spacecraft

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Neptune

• Winds that blow 100s of MPH
• Moon that features geysers
• Last stop of Voyager
• Changes orbits with Pluto

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Pluto

• Has 3 moons
• Now considered a dwarf planet
• Changes orbit with Neptune

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References

• The Planets- Astronomy for Kids
• http//www.dustbunny.com/afk/planets/
• http//starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/
• solar_system_level2/venus.html
• Indiana Standards 6.3.3 6.3.1

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The End