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The Solar System

The solar system consists of the Sun and eight planets orbiting it, along with moons and other objects. The Sun formed 4.6 billion years ago from a giant cloud. The planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto is now classified as a dwarf planet. Each planet has unique characteristics and formations. The Moon stabilizes Earth's climate and causes ocean tides.

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The Solar System

The solar system consists of the Sun and eight planets orbiting it, along with moons and other objects. The Sun formed 4.6 billion years ago from a giant cloud. The planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto is now classified as a dwarf planet. Each planet has unique characteristics and formations. The Moon stabilizes Earth's climate and causes ocean tides.

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The SOLAR

SYSTEM
Objectives;
At the end of the lesson the student can able to;

• Describe the solar system

• Identify the planets in the solar system, and

• Appreciate the value of planets


What is in the Solar System?

The Solar System consists of the Sun and its


planetary system of eight planets, their moons, and
other non-stellar objects. It formed 4.6 billion years
ago from the gravitational collapse of a giant
molecular cloud.
Sun

The Sun is a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star –


a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the
center of our solar system. It’s about 93 million
miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth and it’s
our solar system’s only star. Without the Sun’s
energy, life as we know it could not exist on our
home planet.
Planets

A planet is a non-stellar astronomical body that is neither a


star nor a stellar remnant. In the dynamicist definition
adopted by the IAU, a planet is massive enough to be
rounded by its own gravity. Six of the Solar System's eight
planets are orbited by natural satellites
Mercury

Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar


System and the closest to the Sun. Its orbit
around the Sun takes 87.97 Earth days, the
shortest of all the Sun's planets.
Venus
• Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is named after the Roman
goddess of love and beauty. As the brightest natural object in Earth's night
sky after the Moon, Venus can cast shadows and can be visible to the naked
eye in broad daylight.[18][19] Venus's orbit is smaller than that of Earth,
and thus can be seen near the Sun in the morning or evening.

• Venus is a terrestrial planet and is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet"


because of their similar size, mass, proximity to the Sun, and bulk
composition.

• Venus is unusual because it spins in the opposite direction of Earth and


most other planets. It also has a very slow rotation making its day longer
than its year.
EARTH

The brightest and largest object in our night sky, the Moon makes
Earth a more livable planet by moderating our home planet's wobble
on its axis, leading to a relatively stable climate. It also causes tides,
creating a rhythm that has guided humans for thousands of years.
The Moon was likely formed after a Mars-sized body collided with
Earth.
EARTH

The Moon is Earth’s only natural satellite and the fifth largest moon
in the solar system.
The Moon’s presence helps stabilize our planet’s wobble and
moderate our climate.
The Moon’s distance from Earth is about 240,000 miles
(385,000km).
The Moon has a very thin atmosphere called an exosphere.
The Moon’s surface is cratered and pitted from comet and asteroid
impacts.
Mars
• Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-
smallest planet in the Solar System, being larger than only
Mercury .

• Mars is named after the Roman god of war. Mars has 2


moons called Deimos and Phobos. They are named after the
two horses that pull the Roman god of war, Mars’, chariot.
They may be asteroids captured by Mars’ gravity.

• Mars is a terrestrial planet whose surface consists of


minerals containing silicon and oxygen, metals, and other
elements that typically make up rock..
Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar
System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times
that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but
slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter is the
third brightest natural object in the Earth's night sky after the Moon
and Venus. People have been observing it since prehistoric times; it
was named after the Roman god Jupiter, the king of the gods,
because of its observed size.
Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in
the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average
radius of about nine and a half times that of Earth.[22][23] It
only has one-eighth the average density of Earth; however, with
its larger volume, Saturn is over 95 times more massive
Uranus

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, and has the
third-largest diameter in our solar system. It was the
first planet found with the aid of a telescope, Uranus
was discovered in 1781 by astronomer William
Herschel, although he originally thought it was either a
comet or a star.
Neptune

•Neptune is dark, cold, and very windy. It's the last of the planets in our
solar system. It's more than 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth is.

•Neptune is very similar to Uranus. It's made of a thick soup of water,


ammonia, and methane over an Earth-sized solid center. Its atmosphere
is made of hydrogen, helium, and methane. The methane gives Neptune
the same blue color as Uranus.

•Neptune has six rings, but they're very hard to see


Pluto

Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, a donut-shaped region of icy


bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Pluto is very small, only about half the width of the United States and its
biggest moon Charon is about half the size of Pluto.

Almost all the planets travel around the Sun in nearly perfect circles. But
not Pluto. It takes an oval-shaped path with the Sun nowhere near its
center. What's more, its path is quite tilted compared to the planets.
Thank you!

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