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The Outer Planets

The Outer Planets. The Outer Planets to Scale. Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto. Outer Planet Similarities. All are tens of thousands of miles across Much larger than the inner planets All are made of gas - hydrogen and helium No rocky surface like the inner planets

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The Outer Planets

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  1. The Outer Planets

  2. The Outer Planets to Scale Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto

  3. Outer Planet Similarities • All are tens of thousands of miles across • Much larger than the inner planets • All are made of gas - hydrogen and helium • No rocky surface like the inner planets • All are not very dense (b/c made of gas) • Why do the outer planets share these similarities? • Why don’t the outer planets have more in common with the inner planets?

  4. Largest planet in solar system (11 time larger than Earth) Colorful cloud bands Rotation = 10 hours -250°F 60 moons orbit it Jupiter

  5. Hurricane-like storm, fueled by heat inside of Jupiter Large enough to cover 3 Earths Discovered by Galileo nearly 400 years ago Largest known storm in solar system Great Red Spot

  6. Least dense planet - Would float on water! Revolves around sun once every 29 yrs. One day = 11 hours Has at least 31 moons largest is Titan Saturn

  7. Made of countless small chunks of ice and rock 170,000 miles wide, <1 mile thick Edge of ring system points towards Earth Cassini (1997) put probe on Titan in 2004 Saturn’s Rings

  8. Discovered by accident (1781) Blue-green color 350°F at cloud tops 1977 discovered it has a faint, dark ring system 1986 Voyager 2 spacecraft studied rings and moons At least 11 rings and 22 moons Uranus

  9. Axis tilted 98° from its orbit One orbit of sun = 84 Earth years Uranus rotates on its axis once every 17 hours Uranus’ Axis

  10. Following its discovery, astronomers calculated its orbit Uranus mysteriously speeded up, then slowed down What’s Wrong with Uranus?

  11. Discovered at its predicted position (1846) 1 rev = 164 Earth years Blue color -370°F at cloud tops 4 rings- 2 thin, 2 thick Great Dark Spot in 1989, but not 1994 Rotates once on its axis every 16 hours Wispy, white streaks are clouds Neptune

  12. Pluto • Coldest, outermost planet • Has not been visited by a • spacecraft • Smallest planet • Only outer planet without ring system and thick atmosphere • One moon- Charon • 6 billion kilometers from sun • One rev = 248 Earth days • Rotates once every 6 days

  13. The S.S. Family Portait

  14. Other objects in The solar system

  15. Asteroids * Rocky object, smaller than a planet, that orbits a star Most are smaller than a kilometer in diameter few are 1,000 kilometers across Few come close to Earth and are captured by Earth’s gravity If one is big enough and does not completely burn up, it could possibly hit Earth.

  16. Asteroid Belt • Region between Mars and Jupiter where most asteroids • orbit the sun

  17. Meteor • Brief streak of light seen when an asteroid enters the • earth’s atmosphere and burns up “ shooting stars” “ falling stars” “meteor shower”

  18. Meteorite • Asteroid that hits the surface of a planet or moon after • traveling through space

  19. Comet * Ball of ice, rock, frozen gases and dust that orbits the sun

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