Solar System

The Sun

 The Sun, a huge sphere of mostly
ionized gas, supports life on Earth.
 The Sun is 332,900 times more
massive than Earth and contains
99.86 percent of the mass of the
entire solar system.

Planets

Mercury

 Mercury is the nearest planet from
the Sun.
 Its orbit period was 88 days and so
one side was permanently facing
away from the Sun.
 Its diameter is 4878 km.
 Its distance from Sun is 57.8 million
km.

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 Venus is the second planet from the
sun.
 Its name comes from roman goddess
of beauty & love.
 Its diameter is 12,104 km.
 Its average distance from the sun is
108.2 million km.

Earth

 The Earth is the third closest planet
to the Sun.
 It is the only planet where the live
happens.
 It consists Nitrogen (around 78%),
followed by Oxygen(21%) and 1% of
other gases.
 Its diameter is 12,756 km.

Mars

 Mars is the fourth planet from the
Sun.
 It is also known as Red Planet.
 It has the largest volcanic mountain
in the Solar System.
 Mars has two natural satellites:-
Phobos and Diemos.

Jupiter

 Jupiter is the fifth planet from the
Sun.
 It is the largest planet of the solar
system.
 Its four largest moons are:- IO,
Europa, Ganymede, Callisto.
 Its magnetic field is 20000 times
than the earth.

Saturn

 Saturn is the second largest planet of
the solar system.
 Saturn (the Roman God of
Agriculture) has a diameter of
120,000 km.
 It has more than 30 moons.
 Its volume is 755 times than the
volume of the earth.

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 Uranus is the seventh planet of the
solar system.
 It is the first planet which is found
with the aid of the telescope.
 It has the 27 moons.
 Miranda is the strangest looking
moon.

NEPTUNE

 Neptune is both the smallest and the
furthest from the Sun.
 It is the last major gaseous outpost
before Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
 Neptune is the Roman God of the
Sea.
 Its distance from the sun is the
4,500 million km.

 Pluto is the coldest dwarf planet.

 It is the largest dwarf planet.
 It has diameter of 3,000 km.
 It is about 10 billion miles from Sun.

 It is discovered on January 1, 1801.
 Its name is derived from the Roman
Goddess.

 Makemake is a creator god of Rapa
Nui (Easter Island).
 It is the third largest known dwarf
planet in the Solar System

 Asteroids are found between belt of
Mars and Jupiter.
 There are more than 90,000
asteroids.

 Meteors are also called Shooting Stars.
 10,000 tons meteors are fall on the
earth each day.

 Comets take 30 million years to take
a trip around the Sun.
 Each comet has a tiny part nucleus.

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