Solar System

By Cuong
Van

Order of the planets in the solar

system

Facts About Mercury

Mass:330,104,000,000,000 billion kg (0.055 x
Earth)
Equatorial Diameter:4,879
Equatorial Circumference:15,329 km
Known Moons:none
Notable Moons:none
Orbit Distance:57,909,227 km (0.39 AU)
Orbit Period:87.97 Earth days
Surface Temperature:-173 to 427C

More Facts About Mercury

Mercury is named for the Roman messenger to the
gods.
Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System.
Mercury has wrinkles.
Mercury is the most cratered planet in the Solar
System.
Mercury has just 38% the gravity of Earth, this is
too little to hold on to what atmosphere it has which
is blown away by the winds of Mercury.

Facts About Venus

Mass:4,867,320,000,000,000 billion kg (0.815 x
Earth)
Equatorial Diameter:12,104 km
Equatorial Circumference:38,025 km
Known Moons:none
Orbit Distance:108,209,475 km
Orbit Period:224.70 Earth days
Surface Temperature:462 C

More Facts About Venus

Venus is the most hottest planet even though it is not the
closest planet to the sun.
Venuss orbit around the Sun takes 225 Earth days, compared
to the Earths 365 days.
TheEarthand Venus are very similar in size with only a 638
km difference in diameter.
Venus spin anti-clockwise direction
Venus is very bright that it can be seen during daytime on a
clear day.
Is the second planet away from the sun

Facts About Earth

Mass:5,972,190,000,000,000 billion kg
Equatorial Diameter:12,756 km
Equatorial Circumference:40,030 km
Known Moons:1
Notable Moons:The moon
Orbit Distance:149,598,262 km (1 AU)
Orbit Period:365.26 Earth days
Surface Temperature:-88 to 58C

More Facts About Earth

Earth has 365 days in a year.
Earth is the third planet from the sun.
Earth is 75 percent water. 97 percent salt
water 1 percent drinkable water.
Earth is the only liveable planet.
Earth has enough gravity to keep us down.

Facts About Mars

Mass:641,693,000,000,000 billion kg (0.107 x
Earth)
Equatorial Diameter:6,805
Equatorial Circumference:21,297 km
Known Moons:2
Orbit Distance:227,943,824 km (1.38 AU)
Orbit Period:686.98 Earth days (1.88 Earth years)
Surface Temperature:-87 to -5 C

More Facts About Mars

Mars is home to the tallest mountain in the solar
system.
Mars has the largest dust storm in the solar system.
Mars got his name from the god of war.
On Mars the sun appears half the size than on Earth.
Mars and Earth have approximately the same
landmass.
You could jump three times higher on mars than on
Earth.

Facts about Jupiter

Mass:1,898,130,000,000,000,000 billion kg
(317.83 x Earth)
Equatorial Diameter:142,984 km
Equatorial Circumference:439,264 km
Known Moons:67
Known Rings:4
Orbit Distance:778,340,821 km (5.20 AU)
Orbit Period:4,332.82 Earth days (11.86
Earth years)

More Facts About Jupiter

Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the solar
system.
Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets with
nine hours 55 minutes.
The red spot on Jupiter is a storm.
Jupiter has the thinnest rings.
Jupiters moon (Ganymede) is the largest moon in the
solar system.
Jupiters has a core of ice, rock, and metals.

Facts About Saturn

Mass:568,319,000,000,000,000 billion kg (95.16 x
Earth)
Equatorial Diameter:120,536 km
Equatorial Circumference:365,82 km
Known Moons:62
Known Rings:30
Orbit Distance:1,426,666,422 km (9.58 AU)
Orbit Period:10,755.70 Earth days (29.45 Earth
years)

More Facts About Saturn

Saturn is made of mainly Hydrogen.
Saturn is the flattest planet.
Saturn orbits the Sun once every 29.4 Earth
years.
Saturn can be seen with the naked eye.
It is named for the Roman god Saturnus, and was
known to the Greeks as Cronus.

Facts About Uranus

Mass:86,810,300,000,000,000 billion kg (14.536 x
Earth)
Equatorial Diameter:51,118 km
Equatorial Circumference:159,354 km
Known Moons:27
Known Rings:13
Orbit Distance:2,870,658,186 km (19.22 AU)
Orbit Period:30,687.15 Earth days (84.02 Earth
years)
Surface Temperature:-197 C

More Facts About Uranus

The name Uranus comes from the ancient Greek
deity Ouranos.
Uranus hits the coldest temperatures of any planet.
Uranus is often referred to as an ice giant planet.
Uranus makes one trip around the Sun every 84
Earth years.
Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel in
1781.

Facts About Neptune

Mass:102,410,000,000,000,000 billion kg
(17.15x Earth)
Equatorial Diameter:49,528 km
Polar Diameter:48,682 km
Equatorial Circumference:155,600 km
Known Moons:14
Known Rings:5
Orbit Distance:4,498,396,441 km (30.10 AU)
Orbit Period:60,190.03 Earth days (164.79
Earth years)
Surface Temperature:-201 C

More Facts About Neptune

Neptune is the smallest of the ice giants.
Neptune was not known to the ancients.
Neptune is not visible to the naked eye
but was first observed in 1846.
Only one spacecraft has flown by
Neptune.
It was named after the Roman god of the
sea.

Facts About Pluto

Mass:13,050,000,000,000 billion kg
(0.00218 x Earth)
Diameter:2,368 km (+- 20km)
Known Moons:5
Orbit Distance:5,874,000,000 km(39.26 AU)
Orbit Period:246.04 Earth years
Surface Temperature:-229C

More Facts About Pluto

Pluto may be the largest dwarf planet
Pluto is one third water
Pluto is named after the Greek god of the
underworld
Pluto was reclassified from a planet to a
dwarf planet in2006.

Our Milky Way

The Milky Ways is the Galaxy that we
are in.
The Milky Way began forming around
12 billion years ago and is part of a
group of about 50 galaxies called the
Local Group.
The Milky Way contains a black hole.

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