outer planets

Jupiter

• Jupiter is a gas giant
• named after the king of the gods
• has a powerful magnetic field

uranus

• seventh planet from the sun
• first planet discovered with the use of a telescope
• got tilted 98 degreees

Dwarf Planets

• 5 officially recognised dwarf planets in our solar system
• found in the outer solar system
• dwarf planets can't make themselves into circles

Kuiper Belt

• made up of methane, nitrogen, ammonia, and water
• At least three dwarf planets are located in the Kuiper belt
• disk-shaped region found in the outer solar system

Neptune

• It takes Neptune 164.8 Earth years to orbit the Sun.
• Triton, was discovered just 17 days after Neptune itself was discovered
• Neptune also has a second storm called the Small Dark Spot

saturn

• Saturn is the least dense planet in the Solar System
• Saturn is a flattened ball
• The first astronomers thought the rings were moons.

Comets

• A comet has four components a nucleus, a coma, a dust tail and an ion tail
• the cloud of gases that forms around the nucleus as the coma is heated is know as the coma