1. The 9 Planets? Or The 8 Planets?
By Miss O.

2. Let’s Sing!!

3. Size….

4. Mercury Closest planet to the Sun
Its year is only 88 days long, so it’s the fastest moving planet in the solar system
Named after the “speedy messenger” of the gods

5. Venus Second closest planet to the sun
Covered with thick clouds, which trap the heat from escaping  the hottest planet
Volcanic ridges on the surface

6. Earth 3rd planet from the Sun Only known planet to have life
Atmosphere and liquid water
Moderate temperatures

7. Mars 4th planet from the Sun
Known as the “red planet”  named after the god of war
High iron content in the soil
Thin atmosphere
Polar caps appear to be covered with ice

8. Jupiter 5th planet from the sun
Largest in the solar system (named after the king of the ancient Roman gods)
Gas giant (made of gas with small, solid cores)
Great Red Spot = a giant storm

9. Saturn 6th planet from the sun
No surface to walk on, because it is a gas giant
Dazzling set of rings made from thousands of individual little bands called ringlets
1 orbit (1 day on Saturn) = 29 Earth days
Violent wind storms like Jupiter

10. Uranus 7th planet from the sun
Tipped on its side and rotates on its side
Also has rings
Also a gas giant

11. Neptune 8th planet from the sun Named after the Roman god of the sea
Smallest of the gas giants
Wildest weather winds blow at 1,200 miles an hour
Great Dark Spot  violent hurricane-type storm

12. Pluto 9th planet from the sun? (76 years) Dwarf planet (2006)
Large moon, Charon
Pluto travels in an egg-shaped orbit around the Sun, sometimes crossing inside the orbit of Neptune to temporarily become the ninth planet again

13. Eris Dwarf planet (16 miles long by 10 miles wide)
Coldest, most distant planet in our solar system
Discovered in 2005
Moon = Dysnomia