Solar System

MERCURY By Connor and Aly

Physical Description, Distance from the Sun Surface: -170 ° C to 450 ° C, very thin atmosphere, vast craters, irregular, cliffs and mountains, thin crust ( miles) Inner Core: very large, dense, metallic core Distance: e7 km or 0.38 AU

Solar Magnitude, Orbital Period, Rotational Period Magnitude: +5.7 to -2.3 Orbit: 88 Earth days, very elliptical Rotation: 59 Earth days

Diameter, Mass, Density Diameter: 4880 km 0.4 Earth’s diameter Mass: 328.5e21 kg or Earth’s mass Density: 5.43 g/cm^3

Satellites, Interesting Facts, Composition Satellites: No known moons Facts: Mariner 10 was the first man-made craft to land on mercury Atmospheric Composition: Hydrogen, Helium, Sodium, Magnesium and more

Jupitar

Physical Description - Colourful atmospheric features - diameter = 142,984km Distance from Sun AU Orbital Period -12 years

Rational Period - 10 hours Equatorial Diameter -142,984 km Mass E27 kg (317.8 Earth mass) Density 1.33 g/cm³

Satellites

Facts Jupiter has 63 moons every 100 pounds on Earth = 264 pounds on Jupiter

Venus By: Marin Schindell

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION 487 trillion km in density Big and bright from the gases Sister planet to earth Very hot (462 C) Radius: 6,052 Surface area: 460,234,317 km²

DISTANCE FROM THE SUN Second planet from the sun 108,200,000 km From the sun Clockwise rotation Length of day: 116d 18h 0m

APPARENT SOLAR MAGNITUDE Apparent solar magnitude: -4.4

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URANUS BY: Prarthana Bhat and Michael Sotnick

Discovered in 1781 Gas planet Has bands of clouds occasionally fainting & appearing Nearly same size of Neptune URANUS

Density – 1.27 g/cm 3 Mass – x kg (Earth=14.54) Atmosphere 83% Hydrogen 15% Helium 2% Methane (Gives blue tint) URANUS system-was-first-discovered-planet.html

Rotational Period – Earth Years Solar Magnitude: +5.9 m 2.88 Billion Km from sun (19.2 AU) 27 known moons URANUS cd62898f6_large.jpeg

Discovered by William Henschel on March 31, First Planet discovered by Telescope Surface Temperature= -197 o C Gravity: only 91% of the gravity on Earth URANUS

Pluto SmallRockyIcy/Cold

Mass – x Distance – 5.9 billion km 157x= 1x Density – 2.03 ±.06 g/cm³ 1,400 km

Satellites (moons) Orbital Period – years Rotational period – days

Interesting Facts Discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh Surface temp. – 44 k ( °C) Composition – CO₂, CH₄, N, H₂O

Neptune Orbital period earth years Rotational period (equatorial) of 16 hours and 6 minutes

Equatorial diameter – 49,528 km Mass – x10 26 kg Density – 1.64 g/cm 3

4,503,000,000 km from the sun Solar magnitude – natural satellites/moons

4 th largest planet Smallest gas giant Diameter is 3.9x that of earth Voyager 2 visited in 1989

✤ fourth planet from sun ✤ second smallest ✤ high concentrations of iron oxide (rust) ✤ thin atmosphere MARS

✤ 639E21 kg (which is Earths mass) ✤ 227,900,000 km away from the sun ✤ 3.93 g/cm(3)

✤ 687 day orbital cycle ✤ 24:37:36 rotational period ✤ diameter of 6,779 km (53% of earths)

✤ Phobes and Deimos (captured asteroids) ✤ Phobes moves closer every year ✤ 30+ to -191 F

The Sun, solar system Assignment Also known as a yellow dwarf star Looks: A bright hot yellowy orange sphere

Some stats The sun’s diameter is 1,391,000 km. Mass:1.9891*1e30 Surface temperature is 5,778 k. The core temperature is 15, 600, 000 k.

Interesting facts planets revolve around the sun. looks: bright hot yellow sphere. 25 million years to revolve around the galaxy

74% hydrogen, 24% helium other 2% is heavier elements. Gases that make the sun

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