Our solar system consists of 8 planets orbiting the Sun, along with moons orbiting the planets and asteroids orbiting the Sun. The planets have orbited the Sun for billions of years. They range in size and composition, from the dusty, airless desert of Mars to the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. Many planets were named after gods from ancient Roman mythology.

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!