What Made the Planet Zorg Spin

What made the Planet Zorg spin was the gust of air that blew in from Venus ... except this particular day, when the wind blew from the North instead of the South the Planet Zorg turned around. Suddenly there was a BIG BANG ! that pushed the moon further into space. Saturn's rings started to spin ... and it seemed there was no stopping them. Even Mars suddenly span faster in it's orbit of the universe. In fact, Mars spinned so fast that it almost crashed into Earth on it's rocket launch ... then Mercury. It seemed that the Sun must have been playing table tennis with the aliens in outer space ... because the moon zig - zagged and zig - zagged around all of the planets in the Solar system. By the time the Planet Zorg reached Pluto, it was rocketing faster than ever. So fast, in fact, that it could no longer be seen from Earth, not even with a telescope lens. Perhaps it was a hot air balloon, floating into space, that made the Planet Zorg spin so much, as if it was in a race.

Spinning Planet Zorg Game 1

. Everyday, the Plant Zorg span 5 times. Remember - there were 45 minutes in every hour and 45 hours in every day. How often did it spin in a week ?

2. 25 meteorites crash - landed on it every hour - how many meteorites is that in a week's orbit ?

3. It zig - zagged to Venus (2 857 miles away) ... then went to Mars (2537 miles away) ... twice visited Earth (257 miles away) and once went to Jupiter (2500 miles away) - how far did it travel in total ?

4. For every one of the miles the Planet Zorg traveled, it span in orbit 3 times - how many times did it orbit ?

5. Every time that the Planet Zorg span this amount of times, the Planet Saturn also span five times - how many times did the Planet Saturn spin ?

© Jacqueline Richards 2005

Answers : Question 1 : 5 x 7 = 35

Question 2 :25 x 45 x 7 = 7, 875

Question 3 : 2 857 + 2537+ 257 + 257 + 2500 = 8 408 miles

Question 4 : 8 408 / 3 = 2802.6666 orbits

Question 5 : 2802.6666 x 3 = 8, 407.9998