https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w We miss you, Pluto! en-us 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC 2023-03-09 20:36:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f31a.png gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947945 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947945 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947947 The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, with internal convective motion that generates a magnetic field via a dynamo process. It is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth.]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947947 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947948 From sun: 93 million miles]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947948 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947951 Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System. Its orbit around the Sun takes only 87.97 days, the shortest of all the planets in the Solar System. It is named after the Roman deity Mercury, the messenger of the gods.]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947951 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947954 From sun: 67 million miles]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947954 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947955 Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. As the second-brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon, Venus can cast shadows and, rarely, is visible to the naked eye in broad daylight.]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947955 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947956 From sun: 92 million miles]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947956 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947958 Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. According to radiometric dating and other sources of evidence, Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago.]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947958 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947960 From sun: 141 million miles]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947960 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947962 Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury. In English, Mars carries a name of the Roman god of war and is often referred to as the 'Red Planet]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947962 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947963 From sun: 484 million miles]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947963 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947964 Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined.]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947964 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947966 From sun: 891 million miles]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947966 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947968 Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth. It has only one-eighth the average density of Earth; however, with its larger volume, Saturn is over 95 times more massive.]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947968 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947971 From sun: 1.7 billion miles]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947971 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947974 Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. Uranus is similar in composition to Neptune, and both have bulk chemical compositions which differ from that of the larger gas giants Jupiter and Saturn.]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947974 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947975 From sun: 2.7 billion miles]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947975 gallery_user https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947978 Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System. In the Solar System, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth, slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus.]]> 2020-03-24 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/peterschuetz1/azu7af4eck8w/wish/472947978