Hello everyone and welcome to my awesome blog! Your blog is not awesome! Oh, be quiet Science Meap! Anyway as I was saying we are going to learn about a very, very, very, very. Cut to the chase! You... you know what... security! Take her off my set please!As I was saying again that we are going to learn about a very big planet called JUPITER!!

Jupiter has had many names in history, but the roman gods named Jupiter after the Roman God Jupiter because Jupiter was the Roman God of the sky and thunder so the name stuck because the planet Jupiter has many storms.

 

Now we are going to talk about the characteristics of Jupiter.  Jupiter rotates at  different speed due to its variance and it's unusual shape it may also rotate at a different speed because it is made up of mostly gasses. Jupiter is composed of 10% helium and 90% hydrogen. Jupiter also has traces of rock, ammonia, water and methane. Scientist think that Jupiter's core is made of rocky materials that equals 10 to 15 planets the size pf earth.

Jupiter's moon Europa

Europa is the 6th largest planet to Jupiter. Europa is the 6th largest moon in the solar system.Some scientist think there is life on Europa because the moon is far to smooth to be bombarded bye comet and meteorite impacts scientist think there is water below Europa's icy surface.

Jupiter's Moon Ganymede

Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system, it is even bigger than mercury.It's orbit last about 7 days. Ganymede has 2.02 times the mass of our moon. Ganymede is composed of mostly silicate rock,water and ice. It has an iron rich, liquid core.

Jupiter's moon IO 

Io is the most volcanically active body in our solar system.Volcanic plumes rise about 190 miles above the surface. Io has over 400 active volcanoes. This extreme geologic activity is the result of tidal heating from friction from Io's interior. 

  

Jupiter's moon Callisto

Callisto is composed of rock and ices. The surface of Callisto is heavily cratered and very old. It does not show any signs of tectonic plates or volcanism.Some surface features are various amounts of impact craters and ridges.

As some of you may have notices Jupiter has a big red spot on it. Well that red spot is a big storm that has been going on for hundreds of years. 

Here are some differences between Jupiter and the inner planets.

Jupiter is bigger than the rest of the planets and none of the other planets have a big red spot/storm on them.

The reason Jupiter has stronger gravity than Earth is because Jupiter has only 254% of the gravity of Earth. This is because Jupiter is way bigger than our planet. 

My 5 Facts
1) Jupiter's red spot is a storm that has been going on fro hundreds of years.
2) Jupiter's moon Ganymede is is bigger than mercury.
3)Jupiter's moon Callisto is composed of rock and ices. 
4) There might be life on Europa.
5)Io is the most volcanically active body in our solar system.

Well thanks for reading my peace out peeps!

  

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Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! Today we are going to learn a bout Comets, meteoroids, meteors, and asteroids. But first we are going to learn about COMETS!!!

A comet is an object in space made of ice, dust, and when it gets close to the sun a tail of gas and dust particles form. It's speed in normally around 2,000 miles per hour but when it gets close to the sun it gets up to 100,000 miles per hour. That's really fast! The parts are nucleus, coma, and the tail.

                                   

Now we are going the explain the differences of meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites. One a meteoroid is a small body moving in our solar system. A meteor is when meteoroid enters the earth's atmosphere. A meteorite is when meteor hits the earth's surface.

Now we are going to talk about something awesome! Meteor showers! A meteor shower is a number of meteors that appear to radiate from one point in the sky at certain date each year.

 

 Asteroids are big pieces of rock that are in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids are have some differences from comets though. Asteroids are made up of Metal and Rocky material, while comets are made up of ice and dust. Another different thing is that Asteroids form much closer to sun than comets because if comets form close to the sun the ice that they made up of would have melted. Also another different thing is that comets have tails and asteroids do not. Comets have longer orbital periods then asteroids.

 

Why study comets and asteroids you ask? Well scientists study them understand more about the origin of our solar system because asteroids are younger than sun and the same age as the planets and comets are the same age as the crest of our solar system so they can be good use for information. 

 

                                                                                   
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1) Scientists have found over 90,000 asteroids which are rocky remains from formation of the solar system.
2) Comets are some of least changed objects in space.
3) There are trillions of comets out there in space.
4) 750,000 asteroids in the asteroid belt.
                                                                   
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