1. Mike Barnard

2. There are 8 planets in our solar
system
 Mercury
 Venus
 Earth
 Mars
 Jupiter
 Saturn
 Uranus
 Neptune
 (When I was your age...Pluto was a planet)

3. Mercury
 Closest to the sun
 the smallest planet
 One day on Mercury is 59 Earth days!

4. Venus
 Second planet from the sun
 Called the Morning Star or the Evening
Star
 One of Earth’s neighbors

5. Earth
 Third planet from the sun
 One moon
 Only planet where we know there is life!

6. Mars
 The Red Planet
 Named after the Roman god of war
 Very cold!

7. Jupiter
 Largest planet in our solar system
 Made of swirling gases
 the Great Red Spot

8. Saturn
 rings made of ice, rock and dust
 22 moons
 Made of gas

9. Uranus
 Tipped on its side
 15 moons and 10 rings
 Smaller than Saturn and Jupiter

10. Neptune
 stormy, windy planet
 Faint rings and eight moons
 Very cloudy

11. Pluto
 Hard, rocky and icy
 Trades places with Neptune
 No longer considered a planet

12. a. It has two moons.
b. It has no moons.
c. It has one moon.
d. It has three moons.

14. a. The sun.
b. Mars.
c. Jupiter.
d. Mercury

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