23/100

Guest Blogger: James D. Smith

Why is the sun so hot? Maybe because it is very close to Earth. Or maybe not. It is actually a star. Now let's go to Mercury. Mercury is the closest to the Sun. A day is long as a year on Mercury. Let's go over to Venus. Venus is the brightest object in the Solar System. It might have been Earth's sister planet, because they might be the same size. Let's go over to Earth. Earth is the only life planet. It is not very hot or not very cold, it is just right for us. Now let's go over to Mars. Mars is very dusty and it has dust storms. It has great volcanoes, and it's dusty.
Now let's go over to Jupiter. Jupiter has a giant red spot. It has gas storms. It is really big, three Earths could fit inside its big red spot. Now let's go to Saturn. Saturn has rings. The rings are made of dust, ice, and rock. Anyway, it is far away from the sun. It looks like a bright star, but it doesn't twinkle--it glows! You might have seen it and thought it was a star. Now let's go over to Uranus. Uranus goes on its side. It also has rings. Icicles give Uranus its blue color. Now let's go over to Neptune. Neptune has a big blue spot instead of Jupiter's. It is very windy on Neptune. Neptune is the windiest one. Neptune is too far away from Earth to be seen without a telescope. The wind on Neptune is so strong that it could pick up an elephant! Now let's go over to the last planet that is called Pluto. Pluto is a tiny dwarf planet. It is very far away from the Sun. It is so small that it needs to have a telescope to see it. Now that is all of the things of the Solar System.
The asteroid belt is made of rock. It is in the middle of Mars and Jupiter. Comets now. Comets are lighter and they're kind of made of dust, but not really. My Mom and Dad call them a shooting star. Now let's go over to meteoroids. Meteoroids are metal. They are a little far away from the Sun, but not really. Have you ever seen a shooting star? It wasn't really a shooting star, it was a meteoroid falling towards Earth. And that's all the things.