1. Solar System What you need to know Where we live in Space

2. The Sun Hydrogen + Helium Sol= Sun

3. Planets Inner Planets Outer Planets

4. Mercury Terrestrial Not the hottest planet Closest planet to sun

5. Venus Terrestrial Closest in size to Earth Hottest Planet

6. Mars Terrestrial Last Inner Planet Has two Satellites (moons)

7. Asteroid Belt Between Mars and Jupiter

8. Asteroid Belt Small Irregularly shaped objects

9. Asteroid Belt Contains the Dwarf Planet Ceres

10. Outer Planets Gas Giants

11. Jupiter Largest Planet in Solar System 50 Regular Moons 14 Provisional Moons

12. Saturn Rings are made mostly of ice

13. Uranus Rotates on its side

14. Neptune Blue Color is from Methane Gas

15. Kuiper Belt Small icy objects Dwarf planets Some comets come from here

16. Pluto Dwarf Planet

17. Comets Rock and Ice Elliptical Orbits Tail when close to Sun

18. Oort Cloud More icy objects and comets End of Solar System

19. Orbits Planetary orbits are roughly circular Planets orbit/revolve around Sun Satellites revolve around planets. Planets rotate on their axes

20. Orbit Elliptical orbits

21. Gravity Force acting on objects Sun’s gravity keeps planets orbiting it Planets’ gravities keep satellites orbiting

22. Sun Earth orbits No Gravity= Earth flies straight out Gravity

23. Credits FOSS Wikipedia NASA Kids