what are the easiest things to learn about planets ?

Question

I want to learn about them, it seems hard!

Answer 1

If you're having trouble, I'd start with searching Google images for pictures of the planets. That way you'll clearly see:
1. Mercury: Small rock with no air close to the sun. Same side always faces the sun.
2. Venus: bigger rock farther from the sun. very thick atmosphere of CO2 makes it extremely to due to greenhouse effect. Currently visible at sunrise from Earth
3. Earth. another rock farther from the sun. just a tiny bit bigger than Venus. The only known planet with life. Mostly covered with water. A thin atmosphere of nitrogen and oxygen. has one moon
4. Mars. red rock farther from the sun. red because it's made of rust. has very thin CO2 atmosphere, but cool because of distance from sun. Polar caps have water and dry ice. a couple small moons
5. Jupiter. hugest planet in solar system. atmosphere of hydrogen and other gasses keep actually planet from being visible. huge red spot is storm bigger than Earth. four moons about the same size as Earths, plus a bunch smaller moons. very thin, dark rings
6. Saturn. gas planet a little smaller than Jupiter. Has huge, bright rings made of ice. Also has a bunch of moons. looks kind of tan brown
7. Uranus. even smaller gas planet, but still huge compared to Earth
8. Neptune. Uranus's twin. looks blue.

You're teacher probably wants you to memorize numbers like distance from the sun (in astronomical units) or diameter (in miles).

Answer 2

After their names, and the fact that they reflect the Sun's light, where to look for them. At the moment, Venus is a very bright white "morning star" - look above the Eastern horizon about two hours before sunrise, and you cannot miss it! And you can watch it for a couple of hours ... Mars is a fairly bright red object in the South around midnight ... Jupiter is only just visible after Sunset: look towards the South and West.

Answer 3

Planets are always far smaller than the star or sun that they revolve around. Unlike stars planets do not shine or put out light like a star does. Planets have only recently been discovered around stars other than our Sun.
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Read more about planets at this web site:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets
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Answer 4

Even human life on Earth can be destroyed from a Asteroid dissolving in our atmosphere from dangerous gas toxin mixing with oxygen...( Atmosphere design contamination )

Answer 5

Its only hard until you start.
Then you'll be fascinated with the planets - each one is so different from the others, each one has some amazing things about it.
wikipedia is a good place to start, or astronomy.com or space.com.

Answer 6

Their names, each one's distance and order from the the sun, learning their moons and a little about their climates shouldn't be that hard either.


I've added a list of websites to get you started
They are in order from the simplest to hardest (The first one is pretty fun looking)

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_system.htm

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/solarsystem/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System

http://images.google.com/images?q=solar+system&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm

Answer 7

Hi. Their names would be a good start.

Answer 8

Their order.

Answer 9

they rotate about a star