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Solar System

Our Solar System is located within the Milky Way galaxy and contains 8 planets that orbit our star, the Sun. The 4 inner planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars - are terrestrial planets composed of rock and metal. The 4 outer planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - are gas giants many times the size of Earth. Other objects like asteroids, comets, and meteoroids also orbit the Sun. Gravity and inertia work together to keep all objects in orbit around the Sun and other celestial bodies.

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Solar System

Our Solar System is located within the Milky Way galaxy and contains 8 planets that orbit our star, the Sun. The 4 inner planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars - are terrestrial planets composed of rock and metal. The 4 outer planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - are gas giants many times the size of Earth. Other objects like asteroids, comets, and meteoroids also orbit the Sun. Gravity and inertia work together to keep all objects in orbit around the Sun and other celestial bodies.

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Our Solar System

Journal
• Can you name the 8 planets in our Solar
System? This includes Earth…

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,


Uranus, Neptune
Do you know any ways to remember
all 8?

• My Very Excellent Mother Just


Sold Us Nuggets!
•
Galaxies
Our sun is 1 of trillions of stars in the universe. Stars are found in groups held together by gravity.
• A huge group of stars is called a galaxy.
• Our entire universe is made up of thousands of galaxies.
• The images below show you how small we are compared to the entire universe.

UNIVERSE GALAXY SOLAR SYSTEM


The entire universe is made A huge group of stars held A system of planets & stars that
of thousands of galaxies together by gravity. are found throughout galaxies
The Milky Way
• Our Solar System is part of the “Milky Way” galaxy.
BRAIN POP

• GALAXY
– http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/galaxie
s/
• MILKY WAY
– http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/milky
way/
• SOLAR SYSTEM
– http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/solarsy
stem/
The Inner Planets
(Terrestrial Planets)
Spinning Planets
• Period of Rotation: amount of time that an
object takes to rotate once. (1 Day)

• Period of Revolution: time it takes an object


to revolve around the sun once. (1 year)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Ob0xR0
Ut8&feature=related
Mercury
• On Mercury you weigh only
38% of what you weigh on
Earth.
• Fastest orbiting planet
• Planet nearest to the sun
• One side of the planet can be 800
degrees Fahrenheit when the
other can be -280 degree
Fahrenheit at the same time.
Venus
• On Venus you weigh only 91% of what you
weigh on Earth.
• Venus has 90 times the pressure of Earth
• Venus has volcanoes like Earth
• Rotates in the opposite direction of Earth.
• One time there were oceans before they
boiled away.
Earth
• 23 hours and 56 min=1 Earth day (rotation)
• 365 days =1 Earth year (revolution)
• Earth is warm enough to keep most of its
water from freezing and cold enough to
keep it’s water from boiling
• Temperature is between –13 degrees
Celsius and 37 degrees Celsius
Mars

• Air Pressure on Mars is the same as 30 km


above the Earth’s surface
• Mars is in the form of ice.
• Evidence that water was there at one time
• Volcanic history like Earth.
• It has the tallest mount of the planets
(Olympus Mons) 3x’s size of Mt. Everest.
Outer Planets
(Gas Planets or Jovial Planets)
Jupiter

• Largest planet in the Solar System


• Has a Great Red Spot from a storm system
that is more than 400 years old (It is larger
than Earth!)
• 9 hours and 54 min=1 Jupiter day (shortest
day)
• Pressure is so great it would crush a
spaceship.
Saturn

• 2nd Largest planet in the Solar System


• 95 times more massive than earth.
• Saturn has the largest rings of any
planet, the rings are made of icy
particles.
• Most moons of any planet.
Uranus

• Discovered in 1781
• Uranus appears blue-green in color
• It’s axis of rotation is tilted 90 degrees
• Moons are named after Shakespearean
plays and formed from other broken
moons.
Neptune

• Discovered in 1846
• Neptune has visual belts of clouds
• Interior releases thermal energy to its
outer layers.
• Use to be the 8th planet after Pluto
until 1999.
What Keeps Our Planets & Other
Objects In Space In Orbit??

GRAVITY & INERTIA


GRAVITY & INERTIA
• Gravity – A force that pulls all objects toward each other.
• Inertia – The tendency of an object to stay either at rest or
in motion along a straight path

So how does these 2 forces keep everything in


orbit?
Actual Orbit
**Example: The picture to the right shows
how inertia & gravity work together to
keep the moon orbiting the Earth.
GRAVITY & INERTIA

Actual Orbit

If inertia was stronger If gravity was Inertia & gravity


than gravity then stronger than work together to keep
objects would stay on the moon orbiting the
their straight path &
inertia then objects
fly off into space. would crash Earth. And they work
together to keep
planets orbiting the
sun
Other Space Objects

COMETS
ASTEROIDS METEOROIDS
What  is a comet?
• A comet is a small
body made out of dust,
rock, gas & ice.
• They are kind of like a
dirty snowball
• Comets come from
faraway regions of our
solar system beyond
the planets
Comets are made up of
different parts.
 The nucleus
 The coma
 The ion tail
 The dust tail
Comet Brain Pop
http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/comets/
What  is an asteroid?
• Asteroids are large
pieces of space
rock with irregular
shapes.
• They are also
known as
planetoids or minor
planets that
revolves around our
sun
• Most asteroids orbit the Sun in the asteroid
belt located between Mars and Jupiter. A few
asteroids approach the Sun more closely.
• Asteroids can collide with object such as
Earth’s moon, creating huge craters on the
surface.

Asteroid Brain Pop

http://www.brainpop.com/science/s
pace/asteroids/

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METEOROIDS
METEORS &
METEORITES
• Meteoroids are pieces of
rock or dust that are
smaller than asteroids.
• Meteoroids are tiny
particles left by an
asteroid or a comet &
most meteoroids are
smaller than the size of a
pebble.
• When small meteoroids enters Earth’s
atmosphere, they usually burn up & make a
fiery trail as it falls, it is then called a meteor
or a “shooting star”

• Meteors that land on Earth are called meteorites.

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