The Planets in our Solar System

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The Planets in our Solar System

• Mr. Sharkey
• Fourth Grade

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Mercury

• Closest planet to the sun and the smallest planet
  in our solar system.
• Orbits the Sun every 87.969 Earth days.
• Has a rocky body like the Earth.
• The average surface temperature is 442.5 K
  (336.83 F).

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Venus

• The second planet from the sun and the sixth
  largest.
• The brightest object in the sky except the Sun
  and Moon.
• Orbits the Sun every 224.7 Earth days.
• Generates the strongest greenhouse effect in our
  solar system, making Venuss surface (860 F)
  hotter than Mercurys.

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Earth

• The third planet from the sun and the fifth
  largest.
• Orbits the Sun once for every roughly 366.26
  times it rotates about its axis.
• The structure consists of crust, upper mantle,
  mantle, outer core, inner core.
• The average surface temperature is 287 K (56.93
  F)

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Mars

• The fourth planet from the sun and seventh
  largest.
• Orbits the Sun every 686.971 Earth days.
• The average surface temperature is 227 K (-51.07
  F)

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Jupiter

• The fifth planet from the sun and by far the
  largest.
• Orbits the Sun every 4,331.572 Earth days.
• The average surface temperature is 165 K (-162.67
  F)

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Saturn

• Is the sixth planet from the sun and the second
  largest.
• Orbits the Sun every 10,832.327 Earth days.
• The average surface temperature is 134 K (-218.47
  F)

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Uranus

• The seventh planet from the sun and the third
  largest.
• Orbits the Sun every 30,799.095 Earth Days.
• The average surface temperature is 76 K (-322.87
  F)

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Neptune

• The eighth planet from the sun and the fourth
  largest.
• Orbits the Sun every 60,190 Earth days.
• The average surface temperature is 72 K (-330.07
  F)

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Pluto

• Usually orbits beyond the orbit of Neptune.
• Is much smaller than any of the planets.
• Was once considered a planet but is now
  considered a dwarf planet.
• The average surface temperature is 44 K (-380.47
  F) http//www.kidsastronomy.com/pluto.htm