Our Solar System

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Our Solar System
The Solar System

• ByAngel Arguello

ByAngel
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Mercury

• Mercury was named by the Romans god
• It is the closest planet to the Sun
• 40 larger than the moon
• The length of a day is 176 earth days

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Venus

• Venus was named after the Roman goddess of love
  and beauty
  
• astronomers once thought Venus to be two separate
  bodies
  
• The astronomers once thought Venus as the morning
  star and evening star
  
• The surface tempature is 860o

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Earth

• Earth is small with a thin, fragile layer of
  atmosphere
  
• It travels at the speed of 108,000 kilometers an
  hour
  
• It is 3rd planet from the sun
• The diameter from the sun is 7,926 miles

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Mars

• The ancient Egyptians named the planet Her
  Desher
  
• .rocks, soil and sky have a red or pink hue
• given its name by the Romans in honor of their
  god
  
• The distance from the sun is 142 million miles

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Jupiter

• Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun
• is the largest planet in the solar system
• Its matter is greater than all of the other
  planets combined
  
• The surface tempature is 166 degress farinnheit

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Saturn

• Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun
• an equatorial diameter of 119,300 kilometers
  (74,130 miles
  
• The length of a day is 10.7 hours
• The distance from the sun is 890 million mi

 
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Uranus

• . Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun
• . discovered by William Herschel in 1781
• . the third largest in the solar system
• .It has rings around it

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Neptune

• outermost planet of the gas giants
• an equatorial diameter of 49,500 kilometers
  (30,760 miles)
  
• it would contain 60 earths if it was hollow
• It has eight moons