SOLAR SYSTEM

UNIVERSE

METEORITES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the small solar system objects does not orbit the sun?
A
comet
B
dwarf planet
C
asteroid
D
meteor
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, gas giant, and subject of the Juno mission, is huge. Huge. It’s so huge, in fact, that it doesn’t actually orbit the sun.

Detailed explanation-2: -The small bodies in the solar system include comets, asteroids, the objects in the Kuiper Belt and the Oort cloud, small planetary satellites, Triton, Pluto, Charon, and interplanetary dust.

Detailed explanation-3: -Meteoroid. Meteoroids are lumps of rock or iron that orbit the sun, just as planets, asteroids, and comets do. Meteoroids, especially the tiny particles called micrometeoroids, are extremely common throughout the solar system.

Detailed explanation-4: -Artificial satellite is a man-made object sent into the space and thus it is not a member of the solar system. Whereas shooting star, sun and asteroids are natural objects and so are the member of solar system.

Detailed explanation-5: -Asteroid – An asteroid is a small body that orbits the Sun, usually within the Asteroid Belt, a region of the Solar System between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Detailed explanation-6: -As they revolve around the Sun in elliptical orbits, the asteroids also rotate, sometimes quite erratically, tumbling as they go. More than 150 asteroids are known to have a small companion moon (some have two moons).

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