The Solar System Is a Fun Place to Live!
While teaching a physical science class this year, it was interesting to see my students' eyes light up when I told them we were going
to be studying the solar system. There's something uniquely fascinating about the worlds beyond ours that inspires our imagination. There
are tons of websites out there with table after table of data about each of the planets...radius, mass, distance from the sun, and so forth and so on...
That's not what this site is. This section of The Problem Site is dedicated to providing fun and interesting
pieces of trivia about the solar system. I hope you and your students enjoy these pages!
Fun facts and trivia about the planet closest to the sun.
A beautiful but deadly planet
The planet named after the god of war in Roman mythology
The king of all planets - bigger than all the other planets combined!
The planet known for its magnificent rings
The sideways planet
A planet which was discovered "mathematically"
Poor Pluto! Not a planet any longer!
In case you wondered about the difference between planets and dwarf planets.
"The Solar System" is written by Douglas Twitchell, and hosted at The Problem Site.
Contents copyright 2009 by Douglas Twitchell. Contents of this page may not be reproduced without permission of the author. For information on using
this site in a classroom situation, please visit the Teachers page.
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