It consists of the sun and eight official planets including neptune uranus saturn jupiter mars earth venus mercury more than 130 satellites of the planets at least three dwarf planets many comets and asteroids.
Solar system list in order.
Our solar system has eight official planets which orbit the sun.
Moons in the solar system.
The following is a list of solar system objects by orbit ordered by increasing distance from the sun most named objects in this list have a diameter of 500 km or more.
The order of the planets in the solar system starting nearest the sun and working outward is the following.
It is the closest planet to the sun so it orbits the sun very quickly just in 88 days.
The sun a spectral class g2v main sequence star.
Its surface is gray to orange in color and it is covered with craters.
The solar system is the gravitationally bound system of the sun and the objects that orbit it either directly or indirectly.
Of the 13 planets and dwarf planets there are four which don t have any moons.
Here are the planets listed in order of their distance from the sun.
This is a partial list of solar system objects by size arranged in descending order of mean volumetric radius and divided into several size classes these lists can also be sorted according to an object s mass and for the largest objects volume density and surface gravity insofar as these values are available.
The inner solar system and the terrestrial planets.
List of planets in the solar system 9 major planets you should know.
These are the planets mercury and venus and the dwarf planets ceres and makemake.
And vast reaches of highly tenuous gas and dust known as the interplanetary medium.
Of the objects that orbit the sun directly the largest are the eight planets with the remainder being smaller objects the dwarf planets and small solar system bodies of the objects that orbit the sun indirectly the moons two are larger than the smallest planet.
Comets and other icy bodies.
Here are a list of the 9 planets in their order in the solar system.
There are currently 181 known moons in our solar system orbiting the various planets and dwarf planets.
Solar system assemblage consisting of the sun and those bodies orbiting it.
First the quick facts.
Countless asteroids some with their own satellites.
8 planets with about 170 known planetary satellites.
Mercury venus earth mars.