Our Amazing Solar System
by:Curtis Tibbles
I am learning to write an information report
Have you ever wondered what is beyond our planet? Planet Earth is only one planet out of eight planets to orbit the sun in our very large Solar System.There are many things that orbit the Sun along with our planet, these include comets, asteroids, and moons.
The solar system is made up of the Sun and everything that orbits around it. The Sun is only a medium star and it is also a gas giant but it has no moons. The sun is the largest object in our Solar System containing 99.8 percent of the Solar System mass.
The planets names are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Inner planets are made up of iron and rock, and the outer planets are giant worlds with thick layers of gas.
Pluto however is no longer considered a planet.This is because some planet’s moons are bigger than Pluto - even Earth is bigger! Hardly anything is known about Pluto but it is made up of a thin layer of nitrogen. Pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show the layer of nitrogen that is Pluto. Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun, and it doesn’t go in a perfect circle. Pluto is also 7.5million kilometres away from the sun.
So now you know a bit about our solar system, the sun, planets, and Pluto. Next time at night look up at the stars try to see some planets, and prepare to be amazed.
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