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Raquel López Rodríguez
• Composition: all objects (satellites) orbiting the Sun, including the eight major planets and their satellites, asteroids, meteors and comets.
• Approximately 69 moons.
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The Sun Our Sun is a medium yellow star.It´s got a temperature of 6,000 degrees Celsius. It takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth
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Mercury• It´s a rocky
planet with a nickel- iron core.
• 1st planet from the Sun.
• No Moons.
• It´s the fastest planet orbiting the Sun.
• It heats up and cools down very quickly.
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Venus
• It´s a rocky planet.
• It is the brights planet visible from Earth.
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Earth• It´s a rocky
planet covered with water.
• Earth is the only planet in our solar system known to support life.
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Earth and The Moon
• The moon shines because it reflects the light of the Sun.
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Mars
• Mars looks red from the rusty iron dust on its surface.
• It has frozen water beneath the surface or at the polar ice caps.
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Jupiter
• It´s the largest, most massive planet in the solar system.
• It has clouds and immense storms in its atmosphere.
• It has very faint rings.• It´s a gas giant.
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Jupiter’s Red Spot
• It is a long-lasting storm that is larger than the Earth.
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Saturn• Its rings are made of billions of dust and ice.• It´s the only planet with rings that can be seen from Earth
using a simple telescope.• It is huge but it is not dense at all. It would float in water.
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Uranus
• It is tilted onto its side.
• It orbits the Sun with its poles aimed at the Sun.
• It is a gas planet.
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Neptune
• It´s a frozen gas giant as blue as the deepest ocean.
• It has rings but they appear faint.
• It has eight moons.
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Pluto
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Milky Way Galaxy
• Every start visible to the naked eye is part of the Milky Way.
• It cointains over 200 billion stars.
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Comets & Asteroids
• Composition: dust and ice nucleus; long tail of dust and vaporized gases.
• Composition: rocks and metals.
• Ceres, the largest asteroid, was the first one discovered.
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Solar System