THE SOLAR SYSTEM

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

The Constituents of the Solar System

The Solar System consists of nine planet and the Sun. The other members of the Solar System are natural satellites, asteroids, comets and meteoriods. The eight planets in the Solar System beginning withh nearest to the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

 

VIDEO OF SOLAR SYSTEM

All the eight planets are moving around the Sun each following its own oval path called orbit. The time taken for a planet to complete one revolution around the Sun is different from the time taken for another planet to do so. Mercury takes the shortest time to complete one orbit, while Neptune takes longest.

RELATIVE SIZE OF PLANETS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

THE REVOLUTION OF THE PLANETS AROUND SUN