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Ms. Hughes 4th grade class

• Our Solar System
• 2008

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A tour of the Solar System

• The solar system is mostly empty. The matter is
  concentrated into tiny dots which are far apart.
• Most of the dots are planets Mercury, Venus,
  Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,
  and Pluto.
• All these planets orbit the Sun.
• The tour is about to start

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Informational Facts about MERCURY by Daniel

• Mercury is the planet closest to the sun
• mercury is made OF rocks
• MERCURY IS GRAY AND HOT, up to
• 800 F

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Informational Facts about Venus

• Venus is the second planet from the Sun.
• There is no liquid water on Venus.
• It has an atmosphere of carbon dioxide.

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Interesting facts about Venus

• It is one of the hottest places in the solar
  system because the surface is made of lead.
• The surface is dry, cracked and covered with
  volcanoes.
• A day on the planet Venus is 243 Earth days long.

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Informational Facts about EARTHby Jose C.

• The Earth has an atmosphere of nitrogen and
  oxygen, and it has liquid water.
• The Earth is the third planet from the sun.
• Earth is made of rock and water.

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Interesting Facts about the Earthby Jose M.

• Earth is more than 4.5 billion years old and ice
  
  covers one-tenth of Earths surface.
• Earth is the only planet with large amounts of
  liquid water on its surface.
• Volcanoes are caused by hot liquid from inside
  the Earth bursting through the crust.

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Informational Facts about MAR by Bernice Garcia

• MARS IS THE FOURTH PLANET FROM THE SUN AND HAS
  TWO SMALL SATELLITES, PHOBOS AND DEIMOS.
• MARS IS A LITTLE LIKE EARTH, EXCEPT IT IS
  SMALLER, COLDER, AND DRIER.

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Interesting facts Mars by Bernice Garcia

• MARS DOSE NOT HAVE RINGS.
• MARS ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION is CARBON DIOXIDE,
  NITROGEN, and ARGON.
• THE DISTANCE FROM THE SUN is 228,000,000 KM

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Interesting facts about Jupiter by Steven

• Jupiter is one of the outer planets.
• It takes Jupiter 12 earth years to revolve around
  the sun.
• It has the largest storms ever seen on any planet.

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Informational Facts about Jupiter by Luis C.

• Jupiter has 63 moons.
• Its maximum surface temperature is unknown.
• Jupiters distance from the sun is 778,000,000
  km.

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Informational Facts about Saturnby Mariela

• Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun.
• It is made of gas.
• Winds in Saturns upper atmosphere reach
  1,825 kilometers per hour.

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Interesting facts about Saturnby Bianette

• If you drop Saturn in a bathtub it will float
  because it is made of gas.
• The distance from the sun is 1,429,000,000 km.
• Do you know that Saturn has 46 moons? Well it
  does!
• Saturn is the most beautiful object that can be
  seen through a telescope.

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Informational Facts about Uranusby Maria

• Uranus is located 2,871,000,000 km from the sun.
  
• It is made of gas, and has clouds that are
  extremely cold.

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Interesting facts about Uranus by Eunice

• Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun.
• Uranus has 27 moons and 11 rings.
• Uranus appears blue because of the methane gas in
  its atmosphere.

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Informational Facts about Neptuneby Navina

• Uranus, Pluto are next to Neptune and its
  4,504,000,000 km
• Neptune is mostly made of hydrogen and helium
  with some methane .

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Interesting facts about Plutoby Jose Ramos

• Pluto is considered a dwarf planet.
• Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun.
• The maximum temperature on Pluto is -223C

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Informational Facts about Plutoby Luis
Rodriguez

• Pluto is one of the
  
  Kuiper belt objects.
• Pluto has a thin atmosphere.
• Plutos atmosphere actually freezes and
  
  falls to Plutos surface.
  

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Informational Facts about the Sunby Juan Carlos

• The suns temperature is 5,504C.
• It is made of hydrogen and helium.
• The sun is at the center of the solar system.

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Interesting Facts about the Sunby Nallely M.

• The sun is the ruling star.
• In Mexico the sun is called Sol.
• The sun formed about 5 billion years ago.

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Informational Facts about Cometsby Caroline

• Comets are big chunks of ice, rock, and gas.
• A comets trip around the Sun can take hundreds
  or even millions of years.
• A comets tail shows up as it nears the Sun and
  begins to warm.

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Interesting facts about Cometsby Gabriela

• Comets orbit the sun in long, oval paths.
• Most of them travel way beyond the orbit of
  Pluto.
• Comets orbits can cross those of the planets.

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Informational Fact about asteroidsby Ralph

• Some asteroids also have moons. When the
  spacecraft Galileo flew past asteroid Ida
  in 1993, scientists were surprised to find
  it had a satellite. They named the tiny
  moon Dactyl.

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Interesting facts about asteroidsby Jordan

• The biggest asteroid was Ceres. It is about 960
  kilometers (600 miles) around.
• Beyond the orbit of mars are millions of chunks
  of rock and iron called asteroids.