UNIVERSE
COMETS
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asteroids
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comets
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planets
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The planets orbit the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The dwarf planets Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris also orbit the Sun. Visit NASA Space Place for more kid-friendly facts.
Detailed explanation-2: -Orbit and Rotation The Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way, bringing with it the planets, asteroids, comets, and other objects in our solar system. Our solar system is moving with an average velocity of 450, 000 miles per hour (720, 000 kilometers per hour).
Detailed explanation-3: -Comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbit the Sun. When frozen, they are the size of a small town.
Detailed explanation-4: -(Grades 5-8) series. An orbit is a regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another one. An object in an orbit is called a satellite.
Detailed explanation-5: -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, .