About the Solar System

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto. These are the planets of the solar system. OK, we should exclude Pluto. Scientists at first thought that Pluto was a major planet, but later they discovered that Pluto was actually not, and classified it under the meteorites (asteroids).

The study of space is called astronomy. Many people, or let’s say astronauts, have gone to the moon. Perhaps they want to see if people can live on the moon.Vikings have landed on Mars and called it “The Red Planet”, maybe because it has a “red sky”.

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How did the solar system come about? Well… Scientists think that the solar system started as some kind of dust, which span around and became a star, called the Sun. Before it form, pieces of it broke away and formed the other 9 (Aww… It should be planets. At first, the Earth was so hot till it was almost molten. After a few days (weeks… months… years… I forgotten), water vapour condensed and became water.

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