by: justin elder the solar system. introduction our solar system is part of the milky way galaxy the...

By: Justin Elder

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

INTRODUCTION• Our solar system is part of the Milky Way galaxy

• The solar system consists of the Sun and planets that gravitationally orbit around it

• The solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years old

• The solar system consists of four inner planets (Terrestrial Planets) Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars and four outer planets (Gas Giants) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

• The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

• Diameter: 1.4 million kilometers or 870,000 miles.

• Composition: 71% hydrogen, 27% helium and less than 2% of all other elements.

• Atmosphere: photosphere, chromosphere, and corona.

• Layers: core, radiation zone, and convection zone

THE SUN

• The first planet from the Sun

• Diameter: 4,878 kilometers

• Distance from Sun: 58 million kilometers (0.39 AU)

• Atmosphere: carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon, oxygen, carbon monoxide, water vapor, nitric oxide

MERCURY

• The second planet from the Sun

• Diameter: 12,100 kilometers

• Distance from Sun: 107 million kilometers (0.72 AU)

• Atmosphere: carbon dioxide and nitrogen.

VENUS

• The third planet from the Sun

• Diameter: 12,715.43 kilometers

• Distance from Sun: 150 million kilometers (1.0 AU)

• Atmosphere: nitrogen and oxygen

• Earth is the only planet we know of to have life

EARTH

• Fourth planet from the Sun

• Diameter: 6,792 kilometers

• Distance from Sun: 228 million kilometers (1.52 AU)

• Atmosphere: carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon

MARS

• Belt of asteroids located between the planets Mars and Jupiter

• Distance from Sun: approx. 2.8 AU

• Size of asteroids vary from very small to about 930 kilometers

ASTEROID BELT

• The fifth planet from the Sun

• Diameter: 142,984 kilometers

• Distance from Sun: 778 million kilometers (5.2 AU)

• Atmosphere: hydrogen and helium

• The Great Red Spot is an anticyclone storm that could fit two to three Earth sized planets

JUPITER

• The sixth planet from the Sun

• Diameter: 120,536 kilometers

• Distance from Sun: 1,429 million kilometers (9.5 AU)

• Atmosphere: hydrogen and helium

• Saturn’s rings extend from 6,630 km to 120,700 km and are about 20 meters thick

SATURN

• The seventh planet from the Sun

• Diameter: 51,118 kilometers

• Distance from Sun: 2.87 billion kilometers (19.2 AU)

• Atmosphere: hydrogen, helium and methane

URANUS

• The eighth planet from the Sun

• Diameter: 49,500 kilometers

• Distance from Sun: 4.5 billion kilometers (30.1 AU)

• Atmosphere: hydrogen and helium

NEPTUNE

• The second largest known dwarf planet in the solar system

• Diameter: 2,320 kilometers

• Distance from Sun: 5.9 billion kilometers (39.5 AU)

• Atmosphere: a thin layer of gases surround pluto

PLUTO

• A region in the solar system outside of the orbit of Neptune from about 30 AU to 50 AU

• 20 times as thick as the asteroid belt

• Three dwarf planets exist in the Kuiper belt Pluto, Haumea, and Makemake

KUIPER BELT

CONCLUSION

• Andromeda is the close galaxy to the solar systems galaxy

• There are more that 140 moons in the Solar System

• The Sun will eventually turn into a red giant and finally a white dwarf