There are nine known planets in our solar system. They are the inner planets, otherwise called as the terrestrial planets, and the outer or Jovian planets. Recently, scientists have re-categorized Pluto as a dwarf planet. In this book, you will read about the characteristics of these nine planets and how they revolve around the Sun. Buy a copy and start reading today.
Describes the nine planets and other bodies of the solar system; includes directions for making models showing the size of the planets and their distance from the sun.
This non-fiction series introduces beginning readers to the nine planets, the stars, the sun, the moon and the solar system. It features fast facts to support the text and photographs, a glossary to increase vocabulary and simple diagrams that compare and contrast the planets.
The solar system unfolds before your eyes in this cheeky, myth-busting book (grounded in real math)! Quick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to! It’s not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it on a place mat, or a lunch box, or into an ordinary book. But that familiar diagram is wrong about almost everything—and so this is no ordinary book. Seven double-gatefold pages open out not once but twice, capturing our planetary neighbors at scale. At a 100,000,000,000-to-1 scale, the Sun is about the size of a dime. And five feet away from the Sun, we find . . . Earth, the size of a pinhead. A hundred-billion-to-one scale is not nearly small enough to fit our solar system into a book (or onto a soccer field)! How small do we need to go? Unfold the next three spreads to find out . . .