The Solar System

• A planet is an object that moves around the sun
• The solar system is made of planets, moons, and the sun
• Solar means "of the sun"
• There are eight planets in our solar system
• The sun is the center of the system, the sun is the strongest and brightest part 
• Planets closer to the sun take less time to go around the sun
• Mercury-closest to the sun, rocky
• Venus-hottest planet, thick clouds
• Earth-water, air, one moon
• Mars-two moons, red, rocky
• Jupiter-largest planet, 63 moons
• Saturn-large rings around it, made of ice and rocks, 47 moons
• Uranus has thin rings, 27 moons, Neptune is a blue planet, 13 moons