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The 9 Planets? Or The 8 Planets?

By Miss O. The 9 Planets? Or The 8 Planets?. Let’s Sing!!. http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd_EIdZrvaU&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active. Size…. http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LUQVzerseI&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active.

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The 9 Planets? Or The 8 Planets?

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  1. By Miss O. The 9 Planets?Or The 8 Planets?

  2. Let’s Sing!! • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd_EIdZrvaU&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

  3. Size…. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LUQVzerseI&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

  4. Mercury • Closest planet to the Sun • Its year is only 88 days long, so it’s the fastest moving planet in the solar system • Named after the “speedy messenger” of the gods

  5. Venus • Second closest planet to the sun • Covered with thick clouds, which trap the heat from escaping  the hottest planet • Volcanic ridges on the surface

  6. Earth • 3rd planet from the Sun • Only known planet to have life • Atmosphere and liquid water • Moderate temperatures

  7. Mars • 4th planet from the Sun • Known as the “red planet”  named after the god of war • High iron content in the soil • Thin atmosphere • Polar caps appear to be covered with ice

  8. Jupiter • 5th planet from the sun • Largest in the solar system (named after the king of the ancient Roman gods) • Gas giant (made of gas with small, solid cores) • Great Red Spot = a giant storm

  9. Saturn • 6th planet from the sun • No surface to walk on, because it is a gas giant • Dazzling set of rings made from thousands of individual little bands called ringlets • 1 orbit (1 day on Saturn) = 29 Earth days • Violent wind storms like Jupiter

  10. Uranus • 7th planet from the sun • Tipped on its side and rotates on its side • Also has rings • Also a gas giant

  11. Neptune • 8th planet from the sun • Named after the Roman god of the sea • Smallest of the gas giants • Wildest weather winds blow at 1,200 miles an hour • Great Dark Spot  violent hurricane-type storm

  12. Pluto • 9th planet from the sun? (76 years) • Dwarf planet (2006) • Large moon, Charon • Pluto travels in an egg-shaped orbit around the Sun, sometimes crossing inside the orbit of Neptune to temporarily become the ninth planet again

  13. Eris • Dwarf planet (16 miles long by 10 miles wide) • Coldest, most distant planet in our solar system • Discovered in 2005 • Moon = Dysnomia

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