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The Solar System Note

The solar system consists of the sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and other celestial bodies. The sun is the largest star and accounts for about 91.8% of the solar system's mass, while there are eight known planets that revolve around it. Additional components include comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and natural satellites like the moon.

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The Solar System Note

The solar system consists of the sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and other celestial bodies. The sun is the largest star and accounts for about 91.8% of the solar system's mass, while there are eight known planets that revolve around it. Additional components include comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and natural satellites like the moon.

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THE SOLAR SYSTEM

The Solar system is the arrangement of sun, planets and other solid objects in the space in
relation to the position of the sun. Or Is the group of heavenly bodies made up of the sun, the
planets, the moons, natural satellites, asteroids, comets, the stars, meteors and meteorites that
surround it.

COMPONENTS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.


Components of the solar system includes the following:-
A STAR
Is a heavenly body that possesses and transmits its own light. A group of stars is known as
galaxy. To the sky there are millions of stars.

SUN
Sun is the big star. It is one among the millions of stars that one sees at night except that it looks
much bigger because it is closer to the earth than other distant stars. The sun is much larger than
other distant stars from the earth, in fact much larger than all the planets put together. It forms
about 91.8% of the mass of the solar system.

PLANETS
The planets are bodies that revolve around the sun. There are eight known planets in our solar
system, these includes Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.. All
planets revolve around the sun in the same orbit that are elliptical and nearly the same plane. A
diagram of solar system .
PLANETS POSITION AND CHARACTERISTICS

COMETS
A comet is a small body made out of dust, rock, gas & ice.
They are kind of like a dirty snowball

ASTEROIDS
Asteroids are large pieces of space rock with irregular shapes.
They are also known as planetoids or minor planets that revolves around our sun
METEOROIDS
Meteoroids are pieces of rock or dust that are smaller than asteroids.
Meteoroids are tiny particles left by an asteroid or a comet & most meteoroids are smaller than
the size of a pebble.

SATELLITES
A satellite is a smaller body which moves around a planet, e.g the moon is the natural satellite of
the earth

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