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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Interesting Facts About The Solar System

1) The sun is the star in our Solar System
2) The sun is by far the largest item in the Solar System
3) 1.3 billion earth's can fill up the sun
4) Mercury is hot during the day and cold during the night
5) The surface of mercury is similar to our moon
6) Mercury has a very low surface gravity
7) Venus is covered in thick clouds and creates a greenhouse effect that makes it very hot
8) Venus has the most circular orbit of all the planet in our solar System
9) Venus has no moons
10) Earth is the only planet with life that has been found so far
11) Earth is 92,897,000 miles from the sun
12) Earth has only one moon and it is called, Luna
13) Rusted soil is what causes Mercury to be red
14) About every two years Mars and Earth become close together
15) Mars has the largest canyon in our Solar System
16) Jupiter has at least 63 known moons and the four largest are
Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto
17) Europa is covered by a cracked, icy surface, may also have liquid water ocean
18) Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System
19) Saturn's ring's are made out of millions of little ice, rocks and dust
20) Saturn's main ring would barley fit in space between the earth and its moon
21) Titan is the largest moon, and is larger than the planet Mercury and Pluto
22) Uranus has the third largest planetary radius
23) Uranus spins on its side
24) Neptune is four times the size of earth
25) Neptune takes 166 years, 25 days and 13 hours to orbit around the sun
26) Neptune has been discovered for 165 years for star time 12:51

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