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Overview of the Solar System

The Solar System consists of the Sun and objects that orbit it, which formed from the collapse of a giant cloud 4.6 billion years ago. It contains eight planets with nearly circular orbits within a flat disc called the ecliptic plane. The four inner terrestrial planets are composed of rock and metal, while the four outer gas giants are much larger and composed of hydrogen and helium. Comets are small solar system bodies larger than meteoroids that develop a coma and sometimes tail when close to the Sun due to solar radiation sublimating their icy nuclei.

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Overview of the Solar System

The Solar System consists of the Sun and objects that orbit it, which formed from the collapse of a giant cloud 4.6 billion years ago. It contains eight planets with nearly circular orbits within a flat disc called the ecliptic plane. The four inner terrestrial planets are composed of rock and metal, while the four outer gas giants are much larger and composed of hydrogen and helium. Comets are small solar system bodies larger than meteoroids that develop a coma and sometimes tail when close to the Sun due to solar radiation sublimating their icy nuclei.

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Haslina Alias

Solar System
INTRODUCTION
The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects
bound to it by gravity, all of which formed from the collapse of a
giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. Of
the retinue of objects that orbit the Sun, most of the mass is
contained within eight relatively solitary planets whose orbits
are almost circular and lie within a nearly-flat disc called the
ecliptic plane. The four smaller inner planets, Mercury, Venus,
Earth and Mars, also called the terrestrial planets, are primarily
composed of rock and metal. The four outer planets, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, also called the gas giants, are
composed largely of hydrogen and helium and are far more
massive than the terrestrials.
“The nine planets”
COMET

A comet is a small solar system body bigger than


a meteoroid[citation needed] that, when close
enough to the Sun, exhibits a visible coma
(fuzzy "atmosphere"), and sometimes a tail, both
because of the effects of solar radiation upon
the comet's nucleus. Comet nuclei are loose
collections of ice, dust and small rocky particles,
ranging from a few hundred metres to tens of
kilometres across.

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