Jupiter

Hello this is The Science Fairy saying welcome back. Today we are going to learn about JUPITER! Jupiter has lots of mysteries. So here we go.

 

Well you are probably wondering how it got the name Jupiter.  It's an interesting story. Here's how it started. Jupiter started as a sky god. Wars have passed then they decided to call him the god of war. When they saw Jupiter's big red dot and lighting, they decided to call the planet Jupiter. here's a great picture of him.

 

 

                                   
Now that we learned about Jupiter the god now it is time to learn about the planet Jupiter. Let's start with Jupiter's surface. Oh wait that's right it doesn't have a surface. (no surface!) That's right no surface its all consisted of gas. It's the same thing as the atmosphere but more compacted. An anstronomer named Rupert Wildt found out that Jupiter is made up of hydrogen and helium.

                                   

 

I have the best idea ever! We should visit the astronomer Galileo back in time. He was the first person ever to find Jupiter and besides he might tell us a fact or to about Jupiter. Let's go!

Me- Hi Galileo.

Galileo- Oh hi there! What are you kids doing here?

Me- We are here to ask you how did you find Jupiter.

Galileo- I was trying to look at the next planet and then I found Jupiter.

Me- What else?

Galileo- Then I noticed it was different than the four planets from the sun.

Me- How come?

Galileo- It had FOUR MOONS!

Me- Wow! What where there names?

Galileo- Their names are Europa, Callisto, Ganymede, and Io.

Me- Thanks and here's a fact for you. They found active volcanoes on Europa. So they think there might be life on there.

Galileo- Wow! Thanks for the fact. wWll you kids need to go back home.

Me- OK bye.

 

 

Wasn't that fun? OK next up is red spot. OK look at the picture, below do you see that red spot on it. Some people think it's just a red spot that is just there. But it's not. It is actually a big storm! Some people compare it to an enormous hurricane. It has huge winds and huge lighting that's the reason that humans don't live there. Here's a pic of it.

 

 

Now we are going to talk about its strong gravitation pull. Scientists are wondering why it's gravity is stronger than the earth's gravity. Well it's stronger because of it's large mass. Since it has a lot of mass it makes it responsible for its SGP.

Now here are the differences of Jupiter and the inner planets.

• They are small.
• Jupiter is huge.
• They have a surface.
• Jupiter doesn't have a surface.
• They have a greater density.
• Jupiter has a small density.
• And they spin slowly.
• Jupiter spins fast.

WE have finished exploring Jupiter. But before you go here are some fun facts.

Fun facts:

• Jupiter can't be a star.
• Jupiter is the fastest planet in the solar system.
• The clouds on Jupiter are 50 km thick.
• Jupiter has a magnate field that is 14 times stronger then ours.
• And Jupiter has rings like Saturn and Uranus.





This is The Science Fairy saying keep learning about planets.

 

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     Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors
Hello everyone! I'm back and today we are going to learn about three things. Those three things are comets, asteroids and meteors. We are first going to talk about comets. Here we go!

 

We are going to talk about the comet's structure. The comet has three parts: the nucleus, the coma, and the tail. Let's talk about the nucleus first. Inside the nucleus is ice, dust, and water but mostly dust. The thing that surrounds the nucleus is a coma or some people call it the head. The coma/head is made up of a cloud of dust, and gas. When it gets close to the sun... I know what you are about to say it melts, wrong. It forms a tail. The ice melts inside the nucleus then forms a haze. The solar winds blows it outward from the comet. That's how a tail is formed. Here is a chart if you don't understand.

 

 

Now lets move on. We are going to talk about asteroids. Asteroids live in the asteroid belt. They rotate on its axis and has tiny little asteroids rotating around them. Asteroids can turn into a dwarf, minor, and so much more. They stay the same distance from the sun at all times.

 

 

 

 

Now the last thing we will talk about are meteors. Well meteors have a routine. The first thing is they leave their belt. They shoot straight for earth (sometimes). They look like shooting stars but they are actually on FIRE! IF we are lucky they will burn up completely. If were not lucky it will strike the earth and might cause a crater like this one.

 

This crater happened in Arizona.

 Since we learned all of them we are now going to see there similarities.

 

• They all orbit around the sun.
• They all are made up of rock.
• They all formed the planets.
• They get close to the earths atmosphere.
• They all leave behind something.

Now we are going to see there differences.

 

       Comets    

• It has a tail
• Made up of gas and dust.                         
• Don't burn up like meteors. 
• They are called dirty snowballs.                     
• They have ice inside them.
• The ice evaporates into a gas while near the sun.

        Asteroids

• Rotates on axis.
• They are the building blocks of our solar system.
• They can turn into a minor planet.   
• They have moons that revolved around them.
• They stay the same distance around the sun at all times.

 

           Meteors

• They look like shooting stars.
• They hit the earth's surface.

 Scientist studying all of these so they can learn more about our solar system.

That's all we have for today. I hope to see you next time. This is The Science Fairy saying keep doing science.

 

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