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Satellites of the Planets• Mercury 0• Venus 0• Earth 1• Mars 2• Jupiter 16• Saturn 18?• Uranus 15• Neptune 8• Pluto 1
The Mack Daddy of the planets
Jupiter
Io - Only object, other
than Earth, with active
volcanoes. Constantly
changing it’s surface.
Io
Europa - Ice covered, with a very smooth surface. Liquid ocean believed to be underneath the ice. Sometimes called a giant billiard ball.
Europa
Ganymede- Largest satellite in the solar system. It is larger than the planets Mercury, Mars and Pluto.
Ganymede
Callisto - More craters than any other object in the solar system. Took billions of years to create it’s surface features.
Callisto
Hoola-hooping forever through time.
Saturn
TitanTitan* second largest satellite in
the solar system
* it has it’s own atmosphere
* organic material has been found on its surface
COMETS- are frozen
balls of gas, dust and rocks
- resembles a dirty snowball
- originate in a region out beyond Pluto called the Oort Cloud
- have two tails* one of dust* one of ions
- tails always point away from the Sun
- comets break apart as they approach the Sun
- they leave a trail of debris
- they increase in size away from the Sun
•Meteoroids -- pieces of rock left
behind in the trail of a comet. Floating
free in space. Comet trash.
•Meteor -- a meteoroid skipping across the Earth’s atmosphere.
-- sometimes called a
“Shooting Star”
• Meteorite -- a meteor that has hit the Earth’s surface.
-- the rock we can physically pick up.
** chunks of rock or
planet like material
floating in space
** located in the
Asteroid Belt between
Mars and Jupiter
** a few asteroids have a
gravitational pull
** a few have their
own satellites
The End