Transcript Slide 1 - Lincoln Library

• Distance from Sun:
3,666 million miles
• Distance from Earth:
2.67 billion miles
• Number from Sun: 9
• Moons: 3
• Rings: None
• Revolution: 248 Earth
years
• Rotation: 6 days, 9
hours, and 18
minutes
• Temperature: -382
degrees F
• Atmosphere: methane
• Solid
• Weight: 1/406 Earth’s
mass
• Size: Less than 1/5
Earth’s diameter
• Origin of name:
Roman god of
underworld
• Color: bluish
• Storms/Landforms:
No storms, it is icy
• Discovery: 1930,
Clyde Tombaugh
• Air freezes and falls
like snow
• Sun looks like a small
star
• No air to breathe
• So far away, we
cannot get good
pictures