Solar System
MERCURY
• By Connor and Aly
Physical Description, Distance from the Sun
• Surface: -170°C to
450°C, very thin
atmosphere, vast
craters, irregular, cliffs
and mountains, thin
crust (300-400 miles)
• Inner Core: very
large, dense, metallic
core
• Distance: 6.2837e7
km or 0.38 AU
Solar Magnitude, Orbital Period, Rotational Period
• Magnitude: +5.7 to -2.3
• Orbit: 88 Earth days, very elliptical
• Rotation: 59 Earth days
Diameter, Mass, Density
• Diameter: 4880 km 0.4 Earth’s diameter
• Mass: 328.5e21 kg or 0.055 Earth’s mass
• Density: 5.43 g/cm^3
Satellites, Interesting Facts, Composition
• Satellites: No known
moons
• Facts: Mariner 10 was
the first man-made
craft to land on
mercury
• Atmospheric
Composition:
Hydrogen, Helium,
Sodium, Magnesium
and more
Jupitar
• Physical Description
- Colourful atmospheric
features
- diameter = 142,984km
• Distance from Sun
- 5.20 AU
• Orbital Period
-12 years
• Rational Period
- 10 hours
• Equatorial Diameter
-142,984 km
• Mass
- 1.898E27 kg (317.8
Earth mass)
• Density
1.33 g/cm³
Satellites
Facts
• Jupiter has 63 moons
• every 100 pounds on Earth = 264
pounds on Jupiter
Venus
By: Marin
Schindell
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
•
487 trillion km in density
•
Big and bright from the gases
•
Sister planet to earth
•
Very hot (462 C)
•
Radius: 6,052
•
Surface area: 460,234,317 km²
DISTANCE FROM THE SUN
•
Second planet from the sun
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108,200,000 km From the sun
•
Clockwise rotation
•
Length of day: 116d 18h 0m
APPARENT SOLAR MAGNITUDE
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Apparent solar magnitude: -4.4
IMAGES
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---This image is from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus
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---This image is from: http://www.mallorcaweb.net/masm/Planeta1.htm
--This image is from: http://www.astronoo.com/pt/artigos/oxigenio.html
URANUS
BY: Prarthana Bhat and Michael Sotnick
URANUS
• Discovered in 1781
• Gas planet
• Has bands of clouds
occasionally fainting
& appearing
• Nearly same size of
Neptune
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Uranus
URANUS
• Density – 1.27 g/cm3
• Mass – 86.81 x 1024 kg
(Earth=14.54)
• Atmosphere
• 83% Hydrogen
• 15% Helium
• 2% Methane (Gives
blue tint)
http://www.space.com/45-uranus-seventh-planet-in-earths-solarsystem-was-first-discovered-planet.html
URANUS
• Rotational Period – 84.02
Earth Years
• Solar Magnitude: +5.9m
• 2.88 Billion Km from sun
(19.2 AU)
http://img0.mxstatic.com/wallpapers/4b43f69223f0a9f6d91bd57
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• 27 known moons
URANUS
• Discovered by William Henschel
on March 31, 1781.
• First Planet discovered by
Telescope
• Surface Temperature= -197oC
• Gravity: only 91% of the gravity
on Earth
http://starcityastrology.wordpress.com
Pluto
Small
Icy/Cold
Rocky
157x
=
1,400 km
1x
Density – 2.03 ± .06 g/cm³
Mass – 1.309 x 10 24
Distance – 5.9 billion km
Satellites (moons)
Orbital Period –
247.68 years
Rotational period –
6.387 days
Interesting Facts
• Discovered by
Clyde W.
Tombaugh
• Surface temp. –
44 k (-229.15°C)
• Composition –
CO₂, CH₄, N, H₂O
Neptune
Orbital period - 165 earth years
Rotational period (equatorial) of 16 hours and 6 minutes
Equatorial diameter – 49,528 km
Mass – 1.0241x1026 kg
Density – 1.64 g/cm3
4,503,000,000 km from the sun
Solar magnitude – 7.8
13 natural satellites/moons
4th largest planet
Smallest gas giant
Diameter is 3.9x that of earth
Voyager 2 visited in 1989
MARS
✤
fourth planet from sun
✤
second smallest
✤
high concentrations of iron oxide (rust)
✤
thin atmosphere
✤
639E21 kg (which is 0.107 Earths mass)
✤
227,900,000 km away from the sun
✤
3.93 g/cm(3)
✤
687 day orbital cycle
✤
24:37:36 rotational period
✤
diameter of 6,779 km (53% of earths)
✤
Phobes and Deimos (captured asteroids)
✤
Phobes moves closer every year
✤
30+ to -191 F
The Sun, solar system
Assignment
Also known as a yellow dwarf star
Looks: A bright hot yellowy orange sphere
Some stats
The sun’s diameter is 1,391,000 km.
Mass:1.9891*1e30
Surface temperature is 5,778 k.
The core temperature is 15, 600, 000 k.
Interesting facts
planets revolve around the sun.
looks: bright hot yellow sphere.
25 million years to revolve around the galaxy
Gases that make the sun
74% hydrogen, 24% helium other 2% is
heavier elements.
By: Cameron and Nicholas
References
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/photos/sungallery/
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/space/sun
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http://palmtreeofdeborah.blogspot.ca/2012/04/what-is-really-goinghtml
on-with-2012.html
gojulesgo.com:2011:05:16:this-ones-a-realgas:.webloc
blogs.telegraph.co.uk:.webloc
babblefrommyhead.wordpress.com:.webloc