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Planets
A planet is a large
round heavenly body
that orbits a star and
shine with a light
reflected from the
star. We know of the
nine planets that orbit
the sun on our solar
system. Since in 1992
astronomers have also
discovered many
planets orbiting other
star
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What are the nine planets?
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Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
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Mercury
Me/re/cu/ry <<MUR
kyuhr ee>>
noun
The smallest in the
solar system after
Pluto and the one
nearest to the sun. its
takes 88 days to
complete at a mean
distance of almost
36,000,000v miles
mercury goes around
the sun about four
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time while the earth is
going around ones
Venus
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Earth
Age: At least 4 ½ billion years
Mass: ,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 (6.6 sextillion tons) (6.0
sextillion metric tons)
Surface features: highest land - Mount Everest, 29,035 feet (8,850
meters) above sea level, Lowest land - shore of the dead sea, about
1,310 feet (399 meters) below sea.
Temperature: Highest 136 °F (59 °C) At Asia, Libya.
Lowest - 128.6 °F (-86 °C) Vostok station in Antarctica
average surface temperature, 59 ° F (15 °C)
Chemical makeup of the earth's crush (In
percent of the crust's weight): Oxygen 46.6,
Silicon 27.7, Aluminum 8.1, iron 5.0, calcium 3.6,
sodium 2.8, potassium 2.6 magnesium 2.0, and other
elements totaling 1.6 7
Mars
The mars odseey probe
shown in this
illustration orbiting
mars, found evidence
of water ice beneath
the surface of mars in
2002. The probe
launched in 2001, also
analyze the chemical
composition of the
planet's surface.
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What is the planet called?
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Jupiter
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Saturn
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Uranus
U|ra|nus <<yu RAY uh-
>>
noun
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Neptune
Latin, related to
nebula cloud mist