Planets fact files made by pupils in Primary 6.

1. THE SUN
NAME:the Romans called the sun Sol and the
Greek called the sun Helios.
AGE:4,5 billion years
IT IS A yellow star which have named Sol the
ancients Roman name.
DIAMETER:109 times the diameter of Earth
TEMPERATURE:5.500ºC
SURFACE:the two gases, hydrogen and helium.
ATMOSPHERE: the two gases, hydrogen and
helium.
OTHER:there are trillions of other stars in the
univers just like it

2. NAME: Because a Roman god was Mars
DAY:24 hours and 39 minutes long
YEAR: 1 year 320 days
SPEED: carbon dioxide
DIAMETER:6.794 kilometers
DISTANCE TO THE SUN:229 kilometers
TEMPERATURE:min: -123ºC max: 36ºC
MOONS: Mars has two moons Phobos and
Deimos
SURFACE:iron oxide
ATMOSPHERE:nitrogen, oxygen and argon
OTHER: Mars is an incredible planet. With
mountains, craters and caverns like Earth and a
rich history

3. NAME: Venus is the Roman Goddess of love and
beauty
DAY: 243 days
YEAR: 262 DAYS
SPEED: 126.108km/h
DIAMETER:the diameter of Venus 2.103 km
DISTANCE TO THE SUN:108.200.000km
TEMPERATURE: Venus is the hottest planet in the
solar system (460 ºC)
MOONS: Venus hasn’t got a Moon
SURFACE:Carbon dioxide and nitrogen
ATMOSPHERE: Carbon dioxide
OTHER Venus has continents, mountains and
craters.

4. SATURN
NAME: The Roman God of agriculture.
DAY:10 hours
YEAR:10,759.2 DAYS
SPEED: 9.69 KM/s
DIAMETER:142,750 km
DISTANCE TO THE SUN:1.4 billion kilometres
TEMPERATURE:-88,15 ºC –3,5 ºC.
MOONS:18 Moons
SURFACE: hydrogen and helium
ATMOSPHERE:with hydrogen and helium
OTHER:The rings were first seen by Galileo
in1610

5. PLUTO
NAME:Pluto was the Roman God of the
underworld
DAY:Pluto takes 6 ½ days
YEAR:Pluto takes 248 ½ years
SPEED:4,8 km x second
DIAMETER:2240 km
DISTANCE TO THE SUN: 5,934,456,500 km
TEMPERATURE:minus 369 ºC
MOONS:Pluto it has got 4 moons
SURFACE:Mostly ice
ATMOSPHERE:Nitrogen
OTHER: It is not a planet

6. JUPITER
NAME: The ancient Roman sky god
DAY: 10 hours
YEAR:11,9 of the Earths years
SPEED: 47.016 km/
DIAMETE: It has a diameter of 88,700 miles km
DISTANCE TO THE SUN:778.500.000km
TEMPERATURE:minimum -163,151ºand maximum -
78,15º
MOONS: 64 moons
SURFACE: Jupiter has no surface
ATMOSPHERE: hydrogen ,helium, methane and
ammonia.
OTHER:The first person to the discover and observe
jupiters and its monns was galileo

7. Earth
DAY: 24 hours
YEAR:356 days
SPEED:29,8km/s
DIAMETER:12.74km
DISTANCE TO THE SUN:150 million km
TEMPERATURE:maximum 56ºC and minimum -
89,2ºC
MOONS:1 moon
SURFACE:
ATMOSPHERE: 30 % oxygen, 32% iron, 15%
silicon 13% magnesium, and other.
OTHER: age 4,54 thousand million years

8. URANOS
NAME: IT IS NAMED IN HONOR OF THE GREEK
GOD OF THE SKY URANOS
DAY: 17 HOURS, 14 MINUTE
YEAR: 84 YEARs
SPEED: 6.80KM/S
DIAMETER: 51.118KM
DISTAN:CE TO THE SUN: 2.869millionKM
TEMPERATURE: -210ºC
MOONS: 27
SURFACE: No surface
ATMOSPHERE: HYDROGEN HELIUM AND
METHANE
OTHER: IT CANNOT BE SEEN FROM THE
EARTH WITHOUT A TELESCOPE

9. ERIS
NAME:Eris
DAY:Unknown
YEAR:557 years
SPEED:3,436km
DIAMETER:3.000km
DISTANCE TO THE SUN:14.316 million km
TEMPERATURE:-235ºC
MOONS:1
SURFACE:Frozen methane
ATMOSPHERE:a layer of ice
OTHER:, Chad Trujillo, David Lincoln Rabinowitz
AND Michael Brown discovered Eris the 1st may
2005.

10. NEPTUNE
NAME:NEPTUNE they named Nepune after the
Roman God of the Sea
DAY:19 HOURS
YEAR:165 DAYS
SPEED:5,4778km/s
DIAMETER:49.572km
DISTANCE TO THE SUN:4495 MILLiON km
TEMPERATURE: -220 ºC
MOONS:13 MOONS
SURFACE: ice surface
ATMOSPHERE: gas, heliun,hidrogen,methane
OTHER DISCORED BY Urbain le Verrier

11. MERCUR
Y
NAME:The planet was called after the messenger of the
Roman Gods.
DAY:59 days.
YEAR: 249 years.
SPEED:48 kilometres a second.
DIAMETER:12,760 kilometres
DISTANCE TO THE SUN:58 million kilometres away from
the sun.
TEMPERATURE:26ºc maximum and -200 ºc minimum.
MOONS:Mercury has o Moons,
SURFACE:70% metals and 30% silicate material
ATMOSPHERE:42% oxygen, 29% sodium, 22% hydrogen
6% helium.
OTHER: