Mrs. Laudati

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Mrs. Laudatis Third Grade Visits the Solar System
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The sun is in the center of the solar system. All
of the planets revolve around the sun.
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Mercury
Zachary Lisa
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• Mercury is the first planet in the solar system.
• Mercury has no moons.
• Mercury is an inner planet.
• Mercury has rolling hills and ridges.
• Mercurys orbit is in the shape of an ellipse.
• Mercury is 36,000,00 miles away from the sun.

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Venus
Sarah Ashley M. Cooper
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• Venus is the only planet that spins backwards.
• Venus was named after the Roman Goddess of Love.
• Venus has large craters and as many as 430
  volcanoes.
• Venus is hotter than Mercury.
• A day on Venus is longer than a year.

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• Venus was discovered by Galileo.
• Venus is 67,000,00 million miles from the sun.
• If you look at the moon with binoculars, look
  below the moon and you might see Venus.
• Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system.

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Earth
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Mars
Sharaya Jeancarlo
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• Mars was named after the Roman God of War.
• Mars is a reddish orange color.
• Mars may look dry as a desert but water once
  flowed over the surface.
• There are clouds and fog on Mars.
• It is hot in the daytime.
• It is cold in the nightime.
• There are dust storms on Mars.

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Jupiter
Jolie Ashley T.
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• One of the many mysteries on Jupiter is the
  great red spot.
• The Voyager space probes found that Jupiter has a
  thin ring around it.
• Jupiter has 28 moons and more may still be
  discovered.
• Jupiter is the 4th brightest object in the sky.
• Jupiter is a gas giant.
• Jupiter is called the king of planets.

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Saturn
Diego Justin
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• Saturn is not round like a baseball.It is more
  the shape of a beachball when you sit on it.
• It was discovered by Galleo Galilei in 1610.
• Saturns temperature is 300 degrees below zero.
• Saturn has thousands and thousands of rings.
• Saturn is the least dense of the planets.

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Uranus
Christopher Cherrick
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• Uranus is surrounded by a strange magnetic field.
• Uranuss temperature is 350 degrees below zero.
• Uranus can fit over 100 Earths inside it.
• Uranuss atmosphere is made out of hydrogen and
  helium gases.
• Uranus has unknown black chunks in its rings.
• Uranus is 4 times wider than the Earth.

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Neptune
Berny Ezra
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• Neptune is gas planet.
• Neptune has the strongest winds in our Solar
  System.
• Neptune has raging winds and dark hurricanes.
• Sometimes Neptune is the ninth planet from the
  sun, but the rest of the time, it is back in
  eighth place.

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• Neptune has icy clouds and enormous storms.
• Neptune is a blue planet.
• Neptunes rings are made of dark dust.

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Pluto
Alicia Paulina Michael
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• Pluto is over 3 billion miles from the sun.
• Pluto has one moon.
• Pluto was discovered on February 18, 1930 by
  Clyde Tombaugh.
• Scientists dont know if Pluto has an atmosphere
  or not.
• Pluto is covered with ice and frozen gases.

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• Pluto is so far away that even the most powerful
  telescope cannot discover much about its surface.
• Pluto was named after the God of the Underworld.

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