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Title: Our Solar System


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Our Solar System
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What is in our Solar System?
  • Directions List 10 things that are on our solar
    system.
  • ____________ 6. ____________
  • 2.____________ 7. ____________
  • 3.____________ 8. ____________
  • 4.____________ 9. ____________
  • 5.____________ 10. ___________

3
The Sun
  • A Star
  • Luminous (makes its own light)
  • Provides all the energy in the solar system

4
Terrestrial Planets
  • There are 4 Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
  • Smaller, warm and rocky planets
  • Orbits on the plane of the ecliptic
  • Closer to the sun

5
The Gas Giants
  • There are 4 Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and
    Neptune
  • Larger, gaseous, and colder
  • Orbits in the plane of the ecliptic
  • Far from the sun

6
Dwarf Planets
  • There are currently 5, but there may be as many
    as 70 (Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Makemake, and Haumea
  • Small, weak gravity, and rocky
  • Elongated orbit not in the plane of the ecliptic

7
Asteroids
  • Small
  • Most are irregular shaped
  • Mostly rocks or metal
  • Usually orbit between Mars and Jupiter

Dactyl
Ida
Gaspra
8
Comets
  • Small
  • Made of rock, dust and ice
  • Have a tail
  • Elongated Orbits

9
Meteoroids
  • Smaller than asteroids
  • Made of rock or metal
  • Meteors hit the Earths atmosphere
  • Meteorites hit the Earths surface
  • Meteorites make craters when the impact the
    earths surface

10
Moons
  • Natural satellites that orbit planets
  • Jupiter has 63 moons The most

Rhea- Saturn
Deimos- Mars
Miranda - Uranus
Triton - Neptune
Hyperion - Saturn
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The Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt
  • Oort Cloud A sphere surrounding the solar
    system containing mostly comets
  • Kuiper Belt- A disk shaped area past the orbit of
    Neptune with many icy bodies
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