KURT MALLIA 4.4 GREEN

OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

The Solar System is our neighbourhood in space. It is a collection of planets and smaller objects, all travelling around a central star, the Sun. The Sun is a vast ball of glowing hot gas. It is so big and heavy that its gravity pulls all the objects in the Solar System. The Solar System is a collection of 8 Planets :

1: MERCURY 2: VENUS 3: EARTH

4: MARS 5: JUPITER 6: SATURN

7: URANUS 8: NEPTUNE, more than 170 MOONS, DWARF PLANETS and countless millions of COMETS and ASTEROIDS, all going around the SUN.

10 Fact about The Solar System:

1: Everything in the Solar System revolves around the Sun.

2: The Sun is a star - a massive ball that gives us light and heat.

3: There are 8 planets that orbit around the Sun.

4: The closest planet to the Sun is Mercury and the farthest is Neptune.

5: The biggest planet is Jupiter and the smallest is Mercury.

6: The Earth is the only planet that we know has creatures living on it.

7: The Earth rotates as it orbits the Sun.

8: The Earth takes 1 day to complete a rotation.

9: It takes 365 days for the Earth to complete 1 circuit around the Sun.

We call this a year.

10: Not everything in the Solar System orbits directly around the Sun. The Moon orbits around the Earth.