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The Sun. By: McKenzie Fessenden. What is the distance?. The sun is made of70% Hydrogen 28% Helium 2% metal. The sun’s moon’s are the planets around it. The sun has NO rotation period. The sun’s temperature is 10million degrees and at its core it is 27million degrees!
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The Sun By: McKenzie Fessenden
What is the distance? • The sun is made of70% Hydrogen 28% Helium 2% metal. • The sun’s moon’s are the planets around it. • The sun has NO rotation period. • The sun’s temperature is 10million degrees and at its core it is 27million degrees! • The sun is 1 AU’S from earth!
Where is the sun? • The sun is closest to Mercury. • The sun is 149,600,000km away from earth • The sun was formed 4.56 BILLION years ago. • The asteroid belt is found between Mars and Jupiter.
What’s the size?: • The sun is 1,390,000km. • The sun is so far the largest object in the solar system. • The size of the sun in miles is 432,200 Miles
Some things you should know!: • Hydrogen atoms get compressed and fuse together creating helium, drops below 3.5 million degrees. This is the nuclear fusion. • The heat and light of the sun can get about 3.5 million degree’s F as it cools, loosing heat and radiation, matter is blown off as the solar wind!
For more information go to: • http://nineplanets.org • http://google.com • http://wikipedia.org • The solar system poster • Foss: Planetary Science Resource’s