Planet Facts 6 1 7 8 5 2 9 3 4 21 18 16 yes no Saturn Mercury Uranus Order from Sun Moons Rings Day (1 rotation) Year (1 orbit) Color Saturn 6 21 yes 10 hours 40 minutes 29.5 Earth days yellow, brown Mercury 1 no 59 Earth Days 88 Earth days gray Uranus 7 18 17 hours 14 minutes 84 Earth years green Neptune 8 16 hours 7 minutes 164.8 Earth years green-blue Jupiter 5 16 9 hours 52 minutes 11.9 Earth years brown, beige Venus 2 243 Earth Days 225 Earth days yellow, white Pluto 9 6 Earth Days 248 Earth years Earth 3 24 hours 365.25 Earth days blue, white Mars 4 37 minutes 687 Earth days red

Planet Fact Challenge Use the Planet Facts chart to solve the challenges below. Record your answers on this page. Put the planets in order (2) Name the planets that have visible from Mercury to Pluto: rings: ____________ _______________ ______________________ ____________ (3) List the planets that have moons: (4) Which planets have days that ____________ ________________ are less than one Earth day? ____________ ________________ _____________ _____________

(5) Which planet takes the longest to orbit the Sun? ____________________________ (6) Which planets are gray in color? _________________________ (7) Which planets have more than 10 moons? ________________ __________________ ________________ (8) Is the Sun a planet? Circle your answer YES NO (9) What is your favorite planet? Why?