THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Created by: Aman Pandey

Class: IX ‘B’
Roll no.: 08
Submitted to: Mam Richa Singh
INTRODUCING SOLAR SYSTEM

 The Solar System is the gravitationally

bound system of the Sun and the
objects that orbit it, either directly or
indirectly. Of the objects that orbit
the Sun directly, the largest are the
eight planets, with the remainder
being five dwarf planets and small
Solar System bodies.
 Known planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
Neptune.
 Known Dwarf planets: Pluto, Eris,
Ceres, Haumea and Makemake.
MERCURY
 Mercury is the smallest and innermost
planet of the solar system. Its orbital
period around the Sun of 87.97 days
is the shortest of all the planets in the
Solar System. It is named after the
roman deity Mercury, the messenger of
the gods.
 Distance from Sun: 57.91 million km.
 Radius: 2440 km.
 Amazing about the Planet: Because of
its vertical axis, mercury do not have
seasons.
VENUS
 Venus is the second planet of the Sun,
orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It
has the longest rotation period (243
days) of any other planet in the solar
system and rotates in the opposite
direction to most other planets. It does
not have any natural satellites.
 Distance from sun: 108.2 million km.
 Radius: 6052 km
 Amazing about the Planet: Due to such
a long rotational period, a day at
Venus lasts for about 116 days and 18
hours.
EARTH
 Earth is the third planet from the sun and
the only astronomical object known to
harbor life. Earth revolves around the sun
in 365.267 days, a period known as an
Earth’s year. It takes about 23 hours, 56
minutes and 4 seconds with respect to the
stars. During this time, Earth rotates about
at its axis about 366.26 times.
 Distance from the sun: 149.6 million km.
 Radius: 6371 km
 Amazing about the Planet: The Earth’s
atmosphere extends up to a distance of
about 10,000 km.
MARS
 Mars is the fourth planet from the sun
and the second-smallest planet after
Mercury. It is also called the “Red
Planet” because the reddish iron oxide
prevalent on its surface gives it a
reddish appearance. It has two natural
satellites, namely Phobos and Deimos.
 Distance from the sun: 227.9 million
km
 Radius: 3390 km
 Amazing about the Planet: A day on
Mars (24.5 hours) lasts for about he
same duration as on Earth.
JUPITER
 Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun
and the largest in the Solar System. It
is a giant planet with a mass one-
thousandth that of the Sun, but two-
and-a-half times that of all other
planets in the Solar System combined.
 Distance from the sun: 778.57 million
km
 Radius: 69,911 km
 Amazing about the planet: Despite
having such a large mass and size,
Jupiter rotates very quickly.
SATURN
 Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun
and the second-largest in the Solar
System, after Jupiter. It has only one-
eighth average density of earth, but with
its larger volume, Saturn is 95 times more
massive. The mean density of Saturn is
even less than water. The most famous
feature of this planet is the prominent
ring system.
 Distance from the sun: 1352.55 million km.
 Radius: 58,232 km
 Amazing about the Planet: Galileo
Galilei was the first ever person to look
at Saturn using a telescope in 1610.
URANUS
 Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.
it has the third-largest planetary radius
an fourth-largest planetary mass. It has
27 known natural satellites. Uranus is the
only planet whose name is directly
derived from a figure of Greek
mythology, from the Latinized version of
the Greek god of the Sky, Ouranos.
 Distance from the Sun: 2.871 billion km.
 Radius: 25,632 km
 Amazing about the planet: Uranus is tilted
on its axis to such an extent (about 74°),
that it has its poles where all other
planets have their equators.
NEPTUNE
 Neptune is the eighth and farthest
known planet from the Sun in the Solar
System. In the Solar System, it is the
fourth-largest planet by diameter, the
third-most-massive planet, and the
densest giant planet.
 Distance from the Sun: 4.495 billion km
 Radius: 24,622 km
 Amazing about the Planet: A planet
must orbit the sun, which Neptune does
– once every 165 years.
OTHER BODIES IN SOLAR
SYSTEM
 There are some other bodies also
present in the Solar System.
 These include:
 Dwarf planets like: Pluto, Eris,
Ceres, Haumea and Makemake.
 Other celestial bodies like
comets, meteoroids, etc.
COMETS
 A comet is an icy, small Solar System
body that, when passing close to the
Sun, warms and begins to release
gases, a process called outgassing.
This produces a visible atmosphere or
coma, and sometimes also a tail.
METEOROIDS

 A meteoroid is a small rocky or

metallic body in outer space.
Meteoroids are significantly smaller
than asteroids, and range in size from
small grains to one-meter-wide
objects. Objects smaller than this are
classified as micrometeoroids or space
dust.
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