Section 3

Neptune

-After Pluto was declassified a planet Neptune became the farthest planet from the sun -Neptune is a sea blue color due to the methane gas in it's atmosphere -Have 3 rings but not full rings -It orbits the sun about every 165 years

Jupiter

-Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar system. Ancient Astronomers named Jupiter after the king of the Roman Gods -Jupiter is the 5th closest planet to our sun -If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 264 pounds on Jupiter -Jupiters's volume is large enough to contain 1,300 planets the size of Earth -Jupiter rotates faster than any planet in the solar system -It rotates so quickly that the days are only 10 hours long -It takes 12 Earth years for Jupiter to complete an orbit around the sun -Jupiter has the biggest moon in the Solar System named ganymede. It is even bigger than Mercury and Pluto -Jupiter has a ring just like Saturn and Uranus Great Red spot -the great red spot on Jupiter is a storm that has been going on for over 300 years -You can fit 100 Earths into Jupiter's great red spot.

Pluto

-no longer technically a planet but it's still the 10th largest body orbiting the sun -Smaller than the Earth's moon -Astroids that have been detected are larger than Pluto so Pluto can't be classified as a planet -As a planet orbits the sun not regularly where it's closer to the sun than Neptune

Uranus

-seventh planet from the sun and is named after the Greek God of the sky -It is the only planet whose name came from a figure in Greek mythology as opposed to Roman mythology -Because of the strange way it spins, nights on some parts of Uranus can last for more than 40 years -Even though Neptune is further from the sun Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system -Uranus is translated into "Sky king star" -Uranus and Neptune are both known as Ice Giants

Saturn

-the second largest planet -seven thin, flat rings around it -diameter at it's equator is 74,600 miles which is almost ten times that of Earth -planet can be seen from Earth with the unaided eye but it's rings cannot. Saturn was the farthest planet from the earth that the ancient astronomers knew about -they named Saturn after the Roman god of agriculture -a 100 pound object on Earth would weigh 116 pounds on Saturn -Saturn has the lowest density of all the planers in the solar system. It is so light that it could actually float on water if there was an ocean big enough to hold it -It takes about 29.46 Earth years for Saturn to orbit around our sun -rings are made up of billions of pieces of rocks and dust -Saturn has over 30 known satellites but many of them are small and faint -Saturn has no solid surface. it is a giant ball of gas but it does have a solid inner core -the atmosphere of Saturn comprises mostly of Hydrogen and Helium -titan is the only Saturn Moon with an atmosphere -titan is also larger than the planet Mercury