What is the solar system? Write the names of planets of the solar system in sequence. (2024)
Hint: The term solar means it has to do something with the Sun. The Sun is a star just like other stars you see in the night sky. Eight planets including our Earth revolve around the Sun along with their moons.
As we live with our family, our planet Earth also has a family. As we have our parents and siblings in our family. The Earth has Sun and other planets in his family. The family of the Earth is known as the solar system. A solar system is a collection of the Sun, eight planets and their moons, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and dwarf planets revolving around the Sun. The eight planets revolving around the Sun in a sequence are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. There is an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. These planets revolve around the Sun in an elliptical orbit. There are other astronomical objects too in our solar systems such as meteoroids, comets, and a dwarf planet. Pluto is a dwarf planet. Earlier it was considered as a planet but then it was discarded because it doesn’t satisfy the criteria of planets. The solar system is 286.47 billion km wide!! The fastest man made object will take approximately 6759 years to reach the edge of our solar system. The sizes of the planets and the Sun are also very huge. The Sun itself is so huge that it contains more than 99% of the total mass in our solar system. The radius of the Earth is 6400km whereas the radius of the Sun is 696,340 km. The Sun is so big that 100 piles of earth can fit along its radius. Jupiter is the biggest planet among all the planets whereas mercury is the smallest planet. To imagine the relative sizes, imagine that if the Sun is as big as the door then Earth would be the size of the nail on it. If Jupiter is as big as a football then the Earth would be the size of a grape in front of it.
Note: There are many star systems in the universe. The family of these solar systems along with interstellar dust is known as a galaxy. The collection of galaxies is known as a cluster. There are millions of billion solar systems and over a billion galaxies in the universe. In this vast universe, the Earth is the only planet that has life as we know so far.
Our Solar System has eight planets which orbit the sun. In order of distance from the sun they are; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
Neptune
Neptune is the farthest planet from the Sun, and lies over 50% farther from the Sun than Uranus, and receives only 40% of its amount of sunlight, yet its internal energy is sufficient to drive the fastest planetary winds seen in the Solar System.
Our solar system consists of a star, the Sun, eight planets, 146 moons, a slew of comets, asteroids, space rocks, ice, and numerous dwarf planets, including Pluto. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are the eight planets.
Our solar system is made up of a star, eight planets, and countless smaller bodies such as dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets. Our solar system orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy at about 515,000 mph (828,000 kph). We're in one of the galaxy's four spiral arms.
The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury is closest to the Sun. Neptune is the farthest. Planets, asteroids, and comets orbit our Sun.
The solar system has eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. There are five officially recognized dwarf planets in our solar system: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. The inner, rocky planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
In order of distance from the sun they are; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto, which until recently was considered to be the farthest planet, is now classified as a dwarf planet.
It's just called "the Solar System". (Plenty of places and objects have names like that; it's no different from "the Arctic" or "the Moon" or "the Sun".) ("Sol system" is an invention of science fiction writers; it has no general use outside some science fiction contexts.
A solar system is a collection of the Sun, eight planets and their moons, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and dwarf planets revolving around the Sun. The eight planets revolving around the Sun in a sequence are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
A planet is a large object that orbits a star. To be a planet, an object must be massive enough for gravity to have squeezed it into a spherical, or round, shape,. It must also be large enough for gravity to have swept up any rocky or icy objects from its path, or orbit, around the star.
The solar system consists of the sun, the eight planets and the satellites. Other than these, there are asteroids, comets, dust, minor planets, and gas. The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars constitute the inner solar system, and the asteroid belt lies between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter.
It has a strong greenhouse effect, similar to the one we experience on Earth. Because of this, Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system. The surface of Venus is approximately 465°C! Fourth from the Sun, after Earth, is Mars.
The “Very Easy Method” for Remembering the Planets
If you include Pluto, a good mnemonic for the order of the planets is “My (Mercury) Very (Venus) Easy (Earth) Method (Mars) Just (Jupiter) Speeds (Saturn) Up (Uranus) Naming (Neptune) Planets” (Pluto). It's okay to be creative!
The name "Earth" is an English derivation which came from the older Urth. And is only used by Anglophonic peoples. The Greeks called our planet Terra ( which is the name science uses to universally refer to our planet) and certain others call it Gaia. The French called our planet Monde, the Germans Erde.
The solar system consists of the Sun and everything that orbits, or travels around, the Sun. This includes the eight planets and their moons, dwarf planets, and countless asteroids, comets, and other small, icy objects. However, even with all these things, most of the solar system is empty space.
solar system, assemblage consisting of the Sun—an average star in the Milky Way Galaxy—and those bodies orbiting around it: 8 (formerly 9) planets with more than 210 known planetary satellites (moons); many asteroids, some with their own satellites; comets and other icy bodies; and vast reaches of highly tenuous gas ...
Pluto is now classified as a dwarf planet because, while it is large enough to have become spherical, it is not big enough to exert its orbital dominance and clear the neighborhood surrounding its orbit.
There are eight planets in the solar system. The four inner terrestrial planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, all of which consist mainly of rock. The four outer planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, giant planets that consist mainly of either gases or ice.
Planets in the Solar System. According to the IAU definition, there are eight planets in the Solar System, which are (in increasing distance from the Sun): Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
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