SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Our solar system is made up of a star-the Sun-eight planets, 146 moons, a bunch of comets, asteroids and space rocks, ice, and several dwarf planets, such as Pluto. The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury is closest to the Sun.

Detailed explanation-2: -Our solar system is littered with planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and much more. It includes all the objects that are gravitationally bound to the Sun.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most of this ancient space rubble can be found orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt. Asteroids range in size from Vesta – the largest at about 329 miles (530 kilometers) in diameter – to bodies that are less than 33 feet (10 meters) across.

Detailed explanation-4: -The stars, the planets, the moon and many other objects in the sky are called celestial objects.

Detailed explanation-5: -Composition of the solar system The planets, in order of their distance outward from the Sun, are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Detailed explanation-6: -Of the terrestrial (rocky) planets of the inner solar system, neither Mercury nor Venus have any moons at all, Earth has one and Mars has its two small moons. In the outer solar system, the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and the ice giants Uranus and Neptune have dozens of moons.