Physics · Glossary

What is The Solar System?

Also known as: Solar System

Definition 26.3 Primary & Middle School Physics · Chapter 26 — The Solar System

The Solar System is the Sun together with everything that travels around it: the eight planets — in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune — plus their moons and a crowd of smaller rocks and ice balls.

The Sun and its eight planets, in order — drawn shoulder to shoulder here, though in truth each orbit lies far, far beyond the last.
The Sun and its eight planets, in order — drawn shoulder to shoulder here, though in truth each orbit lies far, far beyond the last.
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