Solar System

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Solar System

The sun together with the group of celestial bodies held together by its attraction and revolve around it.

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The Sun

The star in the center of our solar system around which the planets revolve and receive light.

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Inner planets

Mercury,Venus,earth, mars

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Outer Planets

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

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Order Of the planets

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars , Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

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Moons

An object that orbits a planet or another celestial body that is not a star

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Asteroid

Small rocky bodies that have been left oveer from the formation of planets 4.5 billion years ago. Most of them lie in the asteroid belt between the orbits of MArs and Jupiter

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Asteroid Belt

The asteroid belt separates the inner and outer planets it is made up of many irregular shaped space bodies that orbit the sun in a path

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Comets

Large objects made of dust and ice that orbit the sun characterized by long steaming tails. Originate from the Oort Cloud

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Metors

Rocky objects that enter the atmosphere and burn up

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Kuiper Belt

A large area of small icy objects that orbit the sun beyond planet Neptune.

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Oort Cloud

A giant spherical shell made up of billions of small icy pieces

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