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Solar System (Other planets (Uranus (Gas Giant, Gassy grey rings, Tilted,…
Solar System
Other planets
Saturn
Has rings made up of ice and rocks
Has more than 50 moons
Made mostly of gas
Takes +/- 29.5 Earth years to orbit the Sun
Uranus
Gas Giant
Gassy grey rings
Tilted
Cold
Takes +/- 84 Earth years to orbit the Sun
Jupiter
Largest gas giant
Very cold because of its distance from the Sun
Has +/- 70 moons
Great red spot which is a storm
Takes +/- 12 Earth years to orbit the Sun
Mars
Red because of the iron content
Two moons
Tallest mountain in the solar system
It take +/- 2 Earth years to orbit the Sun
Neptune
Takes +/- 165 Earth years to orbit the Sun
Named after Greek god of water
Farthest planet from the Sun
Known as the Ice Giant
Has a dark stormy spot
Venus
Filled with CO2
Very hot
It takes about 7 months to orbit the Sun
Mercury
Has extreme temperatures
Takes 88 days to orbit the Sun
Earth
The temperature is good to sustain life
70% water and 30% land
365 1/4 days to orbit the Sun
Rotates on it's axis in 24 hours
Has one moon
Sun
Centre of our solar system
Powered by nuclear reaction
Star
Core is +/- 15,000,000* celcius
Dwarf Planets
Pluto
Orbit is in an incline
Has 5 moons
Takes +/- 248 Earth years to orbit the Sun
Eris
Ceres
Moon
Orbits the Earth in 28 days
Distance from Earth is +/- 384,400 km.
Comets
Made of Ice and dust
Have tails
Eclipses
Solar Eclipse
Types of Solar Eclipse
Annular
When the moon covers the Sun but you can still see a ring of sunlight around it
Partial
Part of the Sun is covered by the moon
Hybrid
Changes from an annular to a total solar eclipse and vice versa
Total
When the moon completely covers the disk of the sun
Solar Eclipse is when the new moon moves between the earth and the sun
Lunar Eclipse
When the Earth blocks the sunlight on the moon
Types of Lunar Eclipse
Partial
Only part of the moon's surface is blocked by the Earth's umbra
Total
When the Earth's Umbra (darkest part of the shadow) blocks the sunlight from reaching the moon
Penumbral
When the moon's surface is covered by the penumbra of the Earth
Asteroids
Meteors