1. Solar System

2. The Sun

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The Sun, a huge sphere of
mostly ionized gas, supports life
on Earth.
The Sun is 332,900 times more
massive than Earth and contains
99.86 percent of the mass of the
entire solar system.

4. Planets

5. Mercury

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Mercury is the nearest planet from
the Sun.
Its orbit period was 88 days and so
one side was permanently facing
away from the Sun.
Its diameter is 4878 km.
Its distance from Sun is 57.8 million
km.

7. V
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Venus is the second planet from the
sun.
Its name comes from roman goddess
of beauty & love.
Its diameter is 12,104 km.
Its average distance from the sun is
108.2 million km.

9. Earth

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The Earth is the third closest planet
to the Sun.
It is the only planet where the live
happens.
It consists Nitrogen (around 78%),
followed by Oxygen(21%) and 1% of
other gases.
Its diameter is 12,756 km.

11. Mars

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Mars is the fourth planet from the
Sun.
It is also known as Red Planet.
It has the largest volcanic mountain
in the Solar System.
Mars has two natural satellites:Phobos and Diemos.

13. Jupiter

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Jupiter is the fifth planet from the
Sun.
It is the largest planet of the solar
system.
Its four largest moons are:- IO,
Europa, Ganymede, Callisto.
Its magnetic field is 20000 times
than the earth.

15. Saturn

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Saturn is the second largest planet of
the solar system.
Saturn (the Roman God of
Agriculture) has a diameter of
120,000 km.
It has more than 30 moons.
Its volume is 755 times than the
volume of the earth.

17. U
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Uranus is the seventh planet of the
solar system.
It is the first planet which is found
with the aid of the telescope.
It has the 27 moons.
Miranda is the strangest looking
moon.

19. NEPTUNE

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Neptune is both the smallest and the
furthest from the Sun.
It is the last major gaseous outpost
before Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
Neptune is the Roman God of the
Sea.
Its distance from the sun is the
4,500 million km.

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Pluto is the coldest dwarf planet.

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It
It
It
is the largest dwarf planet.
has diameter of 3,000 km.
is about 10 billion miles from Sun.

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It is discovered on January 1, 1801.
Its name is derived from the Roman
Goddess.

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Makemake is a creator god of Rapa
Nui (Easter Island).
It is the third largest known dwarf
planet in the Solar System

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Asteroids are found between belt of
Mars and Jupiter.
There are more than 90,000
asteroids.

27. Asteroids
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Too small & too
numerous to be
considered full fledged
planets
Most revolve around
Sun between orbits of
Mars & Jupiter=
asteroid belt

28. the asteroid Ida and its newlydiscovered moon, Dactyl

29. Asteroid belt

30. asteroids

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Meteors are also called Shooting Stars.
10,000 tons meteors are fall on the
earth each day.

32. meteoroid meteor meteorite
meteor shower

33. meteor

35. meteorite

36. A shooting star is really a meteor.

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Comets take 30 million years to take
a trip around the Sun.
Each comet has a tiny part nucleus.

38. comet
“dirty
chunk of
snowball” ice & dust
orbitslong narrow
ellipse

39. Parts of
a comet
coma
nucleus
outer layer inner layer
tail
formed by solar
wind pushing gas
away from the sun

40. tail
nucleus
coma

41. Most comets- found in Kuiper belt
(between Neptune & Pluto) or Oort
cloud (beyond Pluto)

42. comet
Pigpen from “Peanuts”
Interactive Comet Animation

44. Comet
HaleBopp in
1997
The passage of Hale-Bopp was notable for inciting a degree of panic about
comets not seen for decades. Rumors that the comet was being followed
by an alien spacecraft inspired a mass suicide among followers of the
Heaven's Gate cult.

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Comet Halley was visible in
1910 and again in 1986. The
next time it will be visible will
be in early 2062.

48. coma
outer layer of a
comet
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49. “dirty snowball”
Nickname for a
comet
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50. nucleus
Inner layer of a
comet
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51. tail
Formed by solar
wind pushing gas
away from the Sun
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52. elliptical (ellipse)
The shape of a
comet’s orbit
around the Sun
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53. meteor
A shooting star is
really a ________.
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54. asteroids
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Too small & too numerous to
be considered full fledged
planets

55. meteorite
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chunk of rock that
lands on Earth’s surface

56. meteoroid
chunk of rock or
dust in space
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57. Comets or asteroids
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Meteoroids usually come
from________ or
___________.

58. friction
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causes meteoroids to
burn up in the
atmosphere

59. Halley’s Comet
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The comet that is
observed from Earth
every 76 years