SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Orbit of a Comet. Comets go around the Sun in a highly elliptical orbit. They can spend hundreds and thousands of years out in the depths of the solar system before they return to Sun at their perihelion. Like all orbiting bodies, comets follow Kepler’s Laws-the closer they are to the Sun, the faster they move.

Detailed explanation-2: -Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.

Detailed explanation-3: -The large objects that revolve around the sun are called planets. There are eight planets that revolve around the sun and some of those planets have moons which revolve around them. The planets that revolve around the sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Detailed explanation-4: -Scientists believe that comets are made up of material left over from when the Sun and the planets were formed. They think that about 100, 000 million comets orbit the Sun. Some comets orbit the Sun like planets. Their orbits take them very close to and very far away from the Sun.

Detailed explanation-5: -Halley’s Comet. Halley’s Comet is the most famous of all comets. Shoemaker Levy-9. Hyakutake. Hale Bopp. Comet Borrelly. Comet Encke. Tempel-Tuttel. Comet Wild 2. More items •04-Sept-2006