Solar system trading cards

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Solar system trading cards
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• By Marty sept. 2006

All pictures taken from bbc .com
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Contents

• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• Mars
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus
• Neptune
• Pluto
• More sites
• Click the pictures to go to that slide

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Mercury

• Its diameter is 4900 km
• One rotation is 59 days
• It has no moons
• Its distance from the sun is 58 million km
• The only thing you can see is the sun and boy is
  it bright
  
• 450ºC day, -170ºC night The dark side is really
  cold and the light side is HOT

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Venus

• Venus has a diameter of 12,104
• It takes 225 days for 1 rotation
• it has 0 moons and nothing else orbiting around
  it
  
• Its 108 million km from the sun
• 480ºC
• All the suns rays are trapped here and it all
  around hot

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Earth

• Its diameter is 12,800 km
• It takes 23 hors and 56 minutes NOT 24 hours
• It only has 1 moon
• Its 150 million km away from the sun
• 120 to -60
• Suns and stars are the only things you can see
• It is known as Venuss twin in size of course

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Mars

• 6,800 km in diameter
• its rotation is 24 hours and 37 minuets
• Wow 2 moons thats more than earth
• Its distance from the sun is 228 million km
• Youd only be able to see the sun from here
• -55ºC
• Its only water has been frozen into dry ice

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Jupiter

• Its diameter is 143,000 km
• It takes 9 hours 55 min
• It 16 moons
• It is 778.3 million km from the sun
• Its -123ºC at the surface20,000ºC at the core
• There on its side is a big red spot bigger than
  earth and its all ways stormy there

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Saturn

• 120,000 in diameter
• Its rotation is 10 hours 39 min
• 18 moons thats a lot
• The distance from the sun is 1,429.34 million km
• -180ºC on the surface12,000ºC at the core
• The only one with very large rings

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Uranus

• Its diameter is 51,100 km
• 17 hours for a rotation
• It has 15 moons and
• the distance from the sun is 2,875 million km
• -214ºC
• Its the weirdest planet of them all its
  sideways!

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Neptune

• Its diameter is 49,500 km
• 8 moons and 4,504 million km away from the sun
• Its rotation period is 16 hours
• -220ºC
• It was named after the roman god of the sea

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Pluto

• Its only 2,300 km in diameter
• Its rotation is 6 days and a month is 6 days
• 1 moon like us
• -220ºC
• It goes in and out from the farthest to closer
  than Neptune

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More sites for science

• http//www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/
• This website should be used prior to webquest so
  all students understand general information about
  the planets and the solar system.
  
• http//kids.nineplanets.org/index.html
• Great informational site just for upper
  elementary kids. Based off another site by Bill
  Arnett.
  
• http//starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/Star
  Child.html
  
• Tons of information which is student friendly.
  Has two levels so you can differentiate for the
  different levels in your classroom. Also has
  translations in a few languages.