planets

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  • Saturn is the second largest planet in our Solar System.
  • Asteroids are small rocky objects that orbit around the sun between mars and jupiter
  • The time it takes for a planet to complete one orbit around the Sun is called its orbital period.
  • Planets orbit the Sun in elliptical paths, with the Sun at one of the foci of the ellipse.
  • Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune are all planets
  • The rings around Saturn are made up of ice, rock, and dust particles that orbit the planet.
  • Uranus has an unusual tilted axis which causes its seasons to last longer than on other planets.
  • mercury: the chemical element of atomic number 80, a heavy silvery-white metal which is liquid at ordinary temperatures.
  • planet mercury
  • planet mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system and is the closest to the sun
  • planet Venus is the second planet from the sun and is the only planet that has a thick atmosphere.
  • planet Saturn's rings are made of dust and ice particles orbiting the planet
  • planet Jupiter's moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, and the Galilean moons
  • planet earth is mostly made of rock and metal, with a thin layer of oxygen and nitrogen