All About Planets - Mrs. McCollough's Class

All About Planets!

By Mrs. McCollough’s Class

Mercury - Autumn & Akshay

Scientists didn’t know the length of
Mercury’s day until 1965.
The inner planets are much smaller
than the outer ones.
Mercury is the smallest planet.
Mercury measures only 3,030 miles
(4,876 kilometer ) across.

Photos found at https://goo.gl/images/Sm5WGd

Venus - Adam & Levi

At its farthest,Venus is 67.7 million miles
away and 109 million km.away.
Venus was once believed to be objects one
seen at night and one seen in the morning.
Venus is one of the only planets without a
moon and the other planet without a moon
is Mercury.
A year on venus is 224 earth days.

Photos found at https://goo.gl/images/4TBvmh

Earth - Farell & Grady

It takes three hundred and sixty-five
days to rotate around the sun.
Sins the Earth is the third planet from
the sun it is liveable.
There is a crust mantle outer core
and an inner core.

PHotos found at https://goo.gl/images/TqpVxH

Mars - Larayah & Yasmin

Mars is the smallest planet.
Mars is a terrestrial planet.
The distance between the Earth and
Mars is always changing.
Mars is called the red planet.

Photos found at https://goo.gl/images/Mb0uS7

Jupiter - Janeliz & Heidi

Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet.
Jupiter is the first outer planet.
Most outer planets are made of gas.
Jupiter has rings! Jupiter has 67 moons.
Jupiter is after Mars.

Photos found at https://goo.gl/images/IUuDou

Saturn - Cathy & Maelynn

Saturn is one of the planets that orbit
the sun.
Saturn is the 2nd biggest planet.
Saturn has a ring around it.
Saturn is really big compared to the
earth.

Photos found at https://goo.gl/images/7xv6Tr

Uranus - Jimmy & Joel

It takes 84 Earth years for Uranus to
orbit around the sun.
Uranus has an axis like Earth.
Uranus’s ring is made of ice and
rock.
It is not very smooth.

Photos found at https://goo.gl/images/Mh7c37

Neptune - Gavin & Tahtiana

Neptune is almost 2.8 billion miles away
from the sun.
Neptune is the coldest planet in our solar
system.
For neptune to orbit all the way around
the sun it would take about 165 earth
years.
Neptune was only discovered about one
neptune year ago.

Photos found at https://goo.gl/images/QPdj8X

Sun - Thien & Vincent

The sun can hold 1 million earths
inside.

The sun has a orbit around the center of
the Milky Way galaxy.

The sun is about 4.6 billion earth years
old.

At the sun’s equator a single rotation
takes about 26 earth days.

Photos found at https://goo.gl/images/9OgrWh

Sun - Mia & Gage

Without the sun we would not have life
In five billion years the sun will burn
out.
The sun is 4.6 billion years old.
Scientists estimate that our sun is 4.6
billion years old.

Photos found at https://goo.gl/images/5cdCya

Earth’s Moon - Genavieve & Julieth

The moon is the Earth’s only
satellite and the second-brightest.
One full cycle of the moon takes
about 29-5 days of Earth.
Engineers are working how to live
on the moon.

Photos found at https://goo.gl/images/2FhapW

Thank you for reading our
class ebook on planets!