Question+7+Luke

The planet I have shosen is the Sun.

Did you know that the Sun takes up 99.8 % of the total mass of the Solar System which means all the other stuff only takes up 0.2 percent. That's like if you got a pizza and choped it into a 1000 equal bits the Sun would take up 998 of the thousand peices. If you got on to the Sun ( Good luck because it's 15 Million degrees celcius) you would actually just sink straight to the center of it because it's made up of gas.

Another cool thing is that you weigh so much more if your on the Sun. I just used a converter which let me see how much I would weigh on the Sun. The answer would be 2690.786 pounds, and thats about 1223.08 kilos which is more than a ussual full grown adult.

The Sun is also brighter than 4 trillion trillion light bulbs and thats about 4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, and we all know if you stare up into the Sun from earth it'll hurt your eyes but emagine being there and looking at it your eyes would probably fall out.

If you were on the Sun and you wanted to get off it, you would have to get your rocket up to 1,503,759 miles or 6.71 km per second to escape the gravity. Now the Sun is alot different from Earth in many ways (especially since it's about 218 times the Earth in size and because it,s about 500 times hotter than earth.) The Earth has only got one moon when the Sun has got all the planets as moons.

Sometimes if your lucky when you look up at the Sun there is a little jumping bit of fire and that's called the Solar Flare these. happen when magnetic feilds on the Sun's surface smack into each other. This causes giant amounts of gas to shoot up into the sky sometimes 100,000 kilometers up and they can last for hours.

So as you can see the Sun is a pretty amazing star that's right it's a star not a planet.

Luke's Solar System