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THE PLANETS
My Very Elegant Mother Just Serve Us Nine Pies
The sun is the star at the center of our solar system. Billions of years ago when the sun was formed, left over gases that accumulated around it in a disk, formed the planets. There are nine planets, which are classified according to their distance from the sun. The closest --named the Inner Planets are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. The Outer Planets are: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The Inner and Outer planets are separated by the asteroid belt. This is a ring made of chunks of rock and metals, which scientists believe never formed into planets. The main asteroid belt http://mercury.nineplanets.org:8011/tnp4kids/intro.htm is between Mars and Jupiter. Activities: 1. Using the table below, build three separate bar-graphs
2. Title the charts. 3. Write two inferences you can make by studying the bar graphs.
Suggested Links: For amazing facts: http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/facts.htm For sending postcards: http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/postcards/postcards.htm Spacey things to make: http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/make.htm Just for kids: http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/planets/planets.htm Other Planetary Systems: http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/other.html
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