a very good presentation on solar system

3. Our planet Earth is one of
the eight planets which
travel around a star , sun-
the name of this path is
orbit. Nearly all of the
planets have moons, which
orbit them as they orbit the
sun. Other space bodies
orbiting the sun includes
mini- planets called
asteroids. Together with the
sun, this family of planets,
moons and other space
bodies is called solar
system.

5. How old are the planets ?

6. No , although its surface sometimes
looks like a big lumpy , bumpy face . The
is a dusty , lifeless desert , with no air or
liquid water . It’s covered in wide flat
plains and high mountain ranges , and
pitted with big hollows called craters ,
made by huge space rocks smashing into
its surface.

7. The bigger ones are , but
Mars‘s two tiny moons
are potato shaped .They
‘re called Deimos and
Phobos ,and it would take
you less than a day to
walk across of them. Our
Moon is nearly 100 times
wider than the pair of
them together.

8. The proper name for
‘shooting stars’ is
‘meteors’ , and they
aren’t stars . Instead
, they’re pea – sized
bits of space rocks ,
burning up into dust
as they plunge down
through the air
around the Earth .
They look like
fireworks streaking
across the night sky .

9. Most of the plants were named a long
time ago, after the god of Ancient
Romans . There names are :-
1 Pluto ,the god of underworld
2 Mars ,the fiery god of war
3 Uranus was named after an
Ancient Greek sky god
4 Saturn, the god of growth and
farming
5 Mercury , the speedy messenger
of the gods
6 Neptune , the god of the sea
7 Venus , the goddess of love
8 Jupiter , the king of the gods

11. For many years
people thought the
Universe was round ,
like a brown up
balloon .
But some scientists
now think it might
be flattish - like a
pancake!