Our Solar System

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Our Solar System

• Find out more about which place to go on your
  special holiday!!!
• By Hannah and Catherine 1A

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Mercury

• It is the closest planet to the sun, it is just
  58 million km away. (very very hot!!)
• Makes a complete orbit in 87.97 days
• Completes a rotation every 58 days and 15 min!!
• Is covered in mountains, craters, ridges and
  valleys. Good if you like climbing!!!

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Venus

• About 108 km from the sun.
• Makes 1 complete orbit every 224.7 days
• Rotates every 243 days and 24 min
• Brightest object in the sky besides the sun and
  moon.
• Has no moons.

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The Earth!

• Completes a rotation every 23hrs 56min
• Mostly covered in water. 75
• 150million km from the sun. it has 1 moon.
• The earth is a great resort in fact 99.9 of
  people have been on the earth at least once since
  they were born!!!!!!!!!!!!! The earth has a great
  atmosphere and is just right if you want to live
  there!!!!!!!!

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Mars

• Is known as the red planet
• 228 million kilometres from the sun
• Orbits the sun every 686.98 days
• Has 2 moons
• Rotates on its axis every 24hrs 37 minutes

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Jupiter

• Jupiter is the biggest planet it weighs 320 times
  more than the Earth!!!!!!
• 780million kilometres from the sun
• Orbits every 9hrs 50min
• Is 1 of the brightest planets

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Saturn

• Is the second largest of all the planets.
• Its mass (weight) is over 95 times that of the
  Earth.
• Its diameter is over 10 times that of our
  planet.
• Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun.
• Saturn is about 1.4 billion kilometres away from
  the sun.
• It makes 1 complete orbit every 29.46 years.
• Rotates on its axis every 10 hrs 39 minutes.
• Has 21 moons and is known for its many rings.
• More interesting facts
• One orbit of sun 10,759.2 days
• One rotation of the sun 10 hours 13 minutes
• Mass 95 more times than the earth
• Volume 744 more times than the earth
• Escape velocity 127,82 km/ million miles
  Distance from sun 1,429 million kilometres 88
• Average temperature -184o

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Uranus

• Uranus means In astronomy mythology, Uranus
  was the lord of the sky and husband of Earth. He
  was also the king of the gods until his son
  Saturn overthrew him. Uranus is very odd. Unlike
  all the other planets and most of the moons in
  our Solar system Uranus spins on its side. It is
  believed that long ago a very large object
  smashed into this planet.
• The crash was so powerful that it completely
  changed the direction of Uranus spin.
• Uranus water beneath its clouds. It has a large
  rocky core, and because of the tremendous
  pressure could possibly contain trillions of
  large diamonds. Uranus is almost identical to the
  planet Neptune. Uranus has 21 moons .
• 1 orbit of the sun 30,684 days
• 1 rotation 17.2 hours
• Mass 14.6 times more than the earth
• Volume 67 times more than the earth
• Escape velocity 76,605 km/hour
• may have an ocean of Distance from sun 2871
  million km
• Average temperature -184c

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Neptune

• About 4.5 billion kilometres from the sun
• Orbits around the sun every 164.79 years
• Completes rotation every 18 hrs 26 minutes
• Very stormy, storms of 400 miles per hour last
  for hundreds of years

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Pluto

• Is the smallest planet
• 5.9 billion km from the sun
• Makes 1 complete orbit every 248 years!!
• Rotates slowly, it spins once every 6 days and 9
  minutes
• Sometimes known as a double planet as it has a
  moon which orbits it
• Has a total of one moon

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Decision Time

• Now that youve heard all about our resorts,
  choose 1 and contact us on this no. 947 82510 as
  we will be staying in Neptune for a few
  weeks!!!!!
• We guarantee a good price and a great memory that
  will last a lifetime!!!!!