1. The solar system Chelsea Helrigel

2. What Will We Learn About? Sun Inner Planets Moon Outer Planets

3. The Sun http://www.astr.ua.edu/ay102/Lab7/Lab_7_home.html

4. Sun http://www.solarviews.com/eng/sun.htm http://www2.hawaii.edu/~wenzhi/quiz2/facts/sun.html Star at the center of solar system The size of 1.3 million Earths Surface= 11,000 degrees F Sunspots and Solar Flares

5. The Inner Planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars http://www.cbk.waw.pl/~kalma/inplanets.php

6. Mercury http://nineplanets.org/mercury.html http://www.astromax.org/planets/mercury.htm Closest to the Sun Eighth largest planet Orbit= 87 days Extremely high temperatures 48 million miles from Earth

7. Venus http://nineplanets.org/venus.html http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Venus/venus.html Second from the Sun Sixth largest planet Brightest planet Orbit= 224 days Earth’s “Sister Planet” 162 million miles from Earth

8. Earth http://nineplanets.org/earth.html http://shannonpenrod.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/earths-new-address-is-freaking-me-out/ Third from the Sun Fifth largest planet Only known planet with life Orbit= 365 days 93 million miles from the Sun

9. Mars http://nineplanets.org/mars.html http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/programs/space/missiontomars.htm Fourth from the Sun Seventh largest planet Orbit= 687 days “Red Planet” 36 million miles from Earth

10. The Moon Earth http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/astronomical-information-center

11. Moon http://nineplanets.org/luna.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Full_moon.jpeg Earth’s only moon 5th largest moon in the solar system Orbit= 23 days “Man on the Moon” First Man on the Moon Neil Armstrong

12. The Outer Planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto ?? http://www.planetsalive.com/?planet=Main&tab=C

13. Jupiter http://nineplanets.org/jupiter.html http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/jupiterfact.html Fifth from the Sun Largest planet Gas giant Orbit= 11 years 390,682,810 mile from Earth Great Red Spot Size of 3 Earths

14. Saturn http://nineplanets.org/saturn.html http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/saturnfact.html Sixth from the Sun Second largest planet Gas giant Orbit= 29 years Planetary rings 744 million miles from Earth

15. Uranus http://nineplanets.org/uranus.html http://www.feastoffun.com/tag/uranus/ Seventh from the Sun Third largest planet Orbit= 84 years Axial tilt Parallel Planetary rings 13 2.57 billion miles from Earth

16. Neptune http://nineplanets.org/neptune.html http://www.universetoday.com/21581/neptune/ Eighth from the Sun Fourth largest planet Orbit= 164 years Planetary rings 3 Icy 4.7 billion miles from Earth

17. Pluto ?? http://nineplanets.org/pluto.html http://www.profilekiss.com/picture/code-107/pluto.html Is it a planet? Dwarf planet Kuiper Belt Ninth from the Sun Orbit= 248 years 26 billion miles away from Earth