1. Solar System

2. MERCURY By Connor and Aly

3. Physical Description, Distance from the Sun Surface: -170 ° C to 450 ° C, very thin atmosphere, vast craters, irregular, cliffs and mountains, thin crust (300-400 miles) Inner Core: very large, dense, metallic core Distance: 6.2837e7 km or 0.38 AU

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

5. Diameter, Mass, Density Diameter: 4880 km 0.4 Earth’s diameter Mass: 328.5e21 kg or 0.055 Earth’s mass Density: 5.43 g/cm^3

6. 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

7. Jupitar

8. Physical Description - Colourful atmospheric features - diameter = 142,984km Distance from Sun - 5.20 AU Orbital Period -12 years

9. Rational Period - 10 hours Equatorial Diameter -142,984 km Mass - 1.898E27 kg (317.8 Earth mass) Density 1.33 g/cm³

10. Satellites

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

12. Venus By: Marin Schindell

13. 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

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

15. APPARENT SOLAR MAGNITUDE Apparent solar magnitude: -4.4

16. IMAGES ---This image is from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venushttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus ---This image is from: http://www.mallorcaweb.net/masm/Planeta1.htmhttp://www.mallorcaweb.net/masm/Planeta1.htm --This image is from: http://www.astronoo.com/pt/artigos/oxigenio.htmlhttp://www.astronoo.com/pt/artigos/oxigenio.html

17. URANUS BY: Prarthana Bhat and Michael Sotnick

18. Discovered in 1781 Gas planet Has bands of clouds occasionally fainting & appearing Nearly same size of Neptune URANUS http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Uranus

19. Density – 1.27 g/cm 3 Mass – 86.81 x 10 24 kg (Earth=14.54) Atmosphere 83% Hydrogen 15% Helium 2% Methane (Gives blue tint) URANUS http://www.space.com/45-uranus-seventh-planet-in-earths-solar- system-was-first-discovered-planet.html

20. Rotational Period – 84.02 Earth Years Solar Magnitude: +5.9 m 2.88 Billion Km from sun (19.2 AU) 27 known moons URANUS http://img0.mxstatic.com/wallpapers/4b43f69223f0a9f6d91bd57 cd62898f6_large.jpeg

21. Discovered by William Henschel on March 31, 1781. First Planet discovered by Telescope Surface Temperature= -197 o C Gravity: only 91% of the gravity on Earth URANUS http://starcityastrology.wordpress.com

22. Pluto SmallRockyIcy/Cold

23. Mass – 1.309 x 10 24 Distance – 5.9 billion km 157x= 1x Density – 2.03 ±.06 g/cm³ 1,400 km

24. Satellites (moons) Orbital Period – 247.68 years Rotational period – 6.387 days

25. Interesting Facts Discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh Surface temp. – 44 k (-229.15°C) Composition – CO₂, CH₄, N, H₂O

26. Neptune Orbital period - 165 earth years Rotational period (equatorial) of 16 hours and 6 minutes

27. Equatorial diameter – 49,528 km Mass – 1.0241x10 26 kg Density – 1.64 g/cm 3

28. 4,503,000,000 km from the sun Solar magnitude – 7.8 13 natural satellites/moons

29. 4 th largest planet Smallest gas giant Diameter is 3.9x that of earth Voyager 2 visited in 1989

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

31. ✤ 639E21 kg (which is 0.107 Earths mass) ✤ 227,900,000 km away from the sun ✤ 3.93 g/cm(3)

32. ✤ 687 day orbital cycle ✤ 24:37:36 rotational period ✤ diameter of 6,779 km (53% of earths)

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

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

35. 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.

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

37. 74% hydrogen, 24% helium other 2% is heavier elements. Gases that make the sun

38. References http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/space/sun. html http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/photos/sun- gallery/ http://palmtreeofdeborah.blogspot.ca/2012/04/what-is-really-going- on-with-2012.html gojulesgo.com:2011:05:16:this-ones-a-real- gas:.webloc blogs.telegraph.co.uk:.webloc babblefrommyhead.wordpress.com:.webloc By: Cameron and Nicholas