Is the closest planet to the sun

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• Is the closest planet to the sun
  
  
• It was named by Romans after the fleet messenger
  of their gods
  
• resolves quickly around the sun but rotates
  very slowly on its axis , so a day on Mercury is
  almost as long as a year
  
• it self has no moons
• is almost an airless planet
• rotational period is 59 earth days

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Is the brightest object in the night sky after
the moon It is the second planet from the sun
The Romans named the brilliant planet Venus a
fter their goddess of love and beauty
Changes shape just like the moon
is some times called earth sister because they
both are the same size is 4 billion years old
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The earth is the third planet from the sun.
As far as we know ,Earth is the only planet that
has living things . The white clouds are part o
f Earths atmosphere. The atmosphere is mostly
made up of the gases nitrogen and oxygen along
with a small amount carbon dioxide and tiny
particles of dust. is covered by five to thirt
y mile deep layer of rocks called crust.
is the only planet with white clouds.
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the fourth planet from the sun
Appears so bright in the night sky because it is
closer to us than any other planet except Venus
It shines with a red color made the early
Romans think of blood and war so they named it
the god of war People once Imagined that Mars
was covered by straight ,dark lines
The gas on mars is carbon dioxide
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Is the giant planet of the Solar System ,more
than one half times as big as all the other
planets put together Is a gas planet of hydrogen
and helium from the sun Is the fifth planet fr
om the sun Was named after the ruler of the roma
n gods Has at least 17 moons the outer moons a
re small under fifty miles across the biggest
moons are Io , Europea, Ganymede , Callisto,and
Titan If Jupiter were hollow , more than 1,300
planets of Earth could fit in the planet
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• is the sixth largest planet from the sun
• It is also the second biggest other than Jupiter
  
  
• There are so many rings there are over thousands
  
  
• The rings also contain dust and bits of rocks
• has the most moons of any planet in the Solar
  System
  
• is a gas planet ,made up mostly of hydrogen and
  helium
  
• has at least 30 moons

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is the second planet from the sun
The planet Uranus was named after the Greek god
named of heaven and the ruler of the world
lies on its side in space has five large mo
ons and at least ten smaller moons
Helium ,hydrogen ,and methane are the gases on
Uranus
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is named after the roman god of sea
surface gravity is 1.19 has two large moons a
nd least 6 smaller Neptune's largest moon is Tri
ton measures 1,620 Neptune only has 4 rings
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ninth planet from the sun but closer than
Neptune smallest and coldest planet in the Sol
ar System. was named after the god of underworl
d . It has no rings . It is 3606 miles from the
sun . Pluto is smaller than 7 of the moons in
the Solar System because it is so small many
scientists don't consider it a planet at all
It is 3,666 miles from the sun
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orbit the sun, but they are quite unlike
planets When a comet approaches Earth it may lo
ok spectacular ,with a long , glowing tail
stretching far across the sky
But comets dont always look like that
Most Comets circle the dark edges of the Solar
System
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The age about the sun is about 5 billion years
Did you know that the Sun's distance from the
Earth is 93 million miles The temperature of t
he suns surface is 10,000ºF and at the core is
27,000,000ºF The sun is made out of 92 hydroge
n ,7.8 helium ,of other gases
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Thank you for watching my show and I hope you
learned something

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