The Nine (or is it 8?) Planets - Website for Kids

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Audience/Grade:	Pre-K or Kindergarten - 8th Grade
Discipline(s):	Aerospace Engineering
Learning Resource Type:	Reference - General
Author(s):	William Arnett Angela Finer
Description:	This site is a version of The Nine Planets, made simpler for younger kids to explore the solar system. It discusses overall characteristics of the solar system in general, then by planet and object: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroid Belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Comets. General characteristics include size, diameter, moon information, spacecraft explorations, and other interesting facts. The site has many visuals and a page of planet notes with understandable information and links to relevant topics. It also includes a temperature converter (for Celsius, Farenheit, and Kelvin) and a distance converter (miles and kilometers) to make understanding measurements easier. A photo and movie gallery has been recently added. More recently the "9" has been crossed out and replaced with a small "8. "Yikes! The astronomers have demoted Pluto so there are now only eight planets; Pluto is no longer officially a planet. Now they're calling it a "dwarf planet". Well, it's certainly a dwarf. But planet or not, it's still out there and we can still try to find out what it's made of and how it got there."
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