Can I get a brief summmary of the solar system from a 2nd grade level?
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The sun is a big fire at the center of the of the solar system. The planets are balls that float around the sun. if the planet is to close to the sun nothing can live on it, It is too hot. If the planet is to far away from the sun nothing can live on it, it is too cold. On earth it is just right. Our atmosphere protects us from all the other stuff floating around. a meteorite is a rock that would hit the earth if our atmosphere did not protect us. the moon is a ball floating around a planet. Our moon is called "Luna" it has no atmosphere and lots of meteors hit it.
The sun is the center of our solar system. It is actually a star. There are 9 planets that travel around the sun in a circle called an orbit. Imagine a picture of a bullseye where the sun is the red dot in the middle and the circles around the red dot are the planet's orbits.The same force that keeps people from falling off of the earth (gravity) keeps the planets from flying away from the sun. The order of the planets starting with the closest to the sun is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
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