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    Our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago around the Sun. It consists of the Sun and everything that orbits around it, including 8 planets, their moons, asteroids, comets and other small bodies. The solar system extends beyond Neptune's orbit into the sparsely populated Kuiper Belt. Galileo's telescope observations in the early 1600s supported the Copernican model that planets revolve around the Sun, revolutionizing astronomy. Voyager and other missions since then have explored and discovered more about our solar system.

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    Our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago around the Sun. It consists of the Sun and everything that orbits around it, including 8 planets, their moons, asteroids, comets and other small bodies. The solar system extends beyond Neptune's orbit into the sparsely populated Kuiper Belt. Galileo's telescope observations in the early 1600s supported the Copernican model that planets revolve around the Sun, revolutionizing astronomy. Voyager and other missions since then have explored and discovered more about our solar system.

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    Our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago around the Sun. It consists of the Sun and everything that orbits around it, including 8 planets, their moons, asteroids, comets and other small bodies. The solar system extends beyond Neptune's orbit into the sparsely populated Kuiper Belt. Galileo's telescope observations in the early 1600s supported the Copernican model that planets revolve around the Sun, revolutionizing astronomy. Voyager and other missions since then have explored and discovered more about our solar system.

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    SOLAR SYSTEM

    OUR SOLAR SYSTEM: IN


    DEPTH

    Overview
    A solar system is a star and all of
    the objects that travel around it —
    planets, moons, asteroids, comets
    and meteoroids. Most stars host
    their own planets, so there are
    Figure 1-Solar System
    likely tens of billions of other solar systems in the Milky Way 1 galaxy alone. Solar
    systems can also have more than one star. These are called binary star systems if
    there are two stars, or multi-star systems if there are three or more stars.

    The solar system we call home is located in an outer spiral arm of the vast Milky Way
    galaxy. It consists of the sun (our star) and everything that orbits around it.

    Our solar system formed about 4.6 The sun is the center of our solar system.
    billion years ago. It contains almost all of the mass in our
    The four planets closest to the sun -- solar system.
    Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.

    Size and Distance


    The solar system extends much farther than the eight planets that orbit the sun. The
    solar system also includes the Kuiper Belt that lies past Neptune's orbit. This is a
    sparsely occupied ring of icy bodies, almost all smaller than the most popular Kuiper
    Belt Object, dwarf planet Pluto.

    1
    The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.
    SOLAR SYSTEM

    The Voyager mission made an impact in a lot of


    areas of planetary science.

    Exploration
    In the early 17th century, Galileo Galilei's discoveries using the recently invented
    telescope strongly supported the concept of a solar system in which all the planets,
    including Earth, revolve around a central star — the sun. At the time this was called
    Copernican heliocentric theory, and it was a revolutionary idea, as most people
    thought Earth was the center of the universe.

    Since then, we have learned much about our solar system and what lies beyond it
    using ground-based telescopes, spacecraft and mathematical models.

    Significant Dates
     1543: Nicolaus Copernicus publishes his theory of heliocentrism, a model that places the sun
    at the center of the known universe with the planets orbiting in circles around it.
     1609, 1619: Johannes Kepler publishes three laws of planetary motion.
     1610: Galileo Galilei publishes "The Starry Messenger," a pamphlet about his telescopic
    observations of Earth's moon, the phases of Venus, and four of Jupiter's moons.
     1781: William Herschel extends the solar system by telescopically discovering a new planet,
    later named Uranus.
     1846: Urbain Le Verrier, with confirming observations by Johann Galle, further extends the
    solar system by predicting (Le Verrier) and observing (Galle) a new planet, Neptune.
     1930: Clyde Tombaugh's photographic search discovers a member of the solar system
    beyond Neptune, named Pluto, initially classified as a planet but now considered a dwarf
    planet.
     1977: Voyagers 1 and 2 launch from Earth, beginning their mission to explore the far reaches
    of our solar system.
     2012: Voyager 1 enters interstellar space.
    SOLAR SYSTEM

    The following table lists statistical information for the Sun and planets:

    Table 1-Sun and Planet summary

    Distanc Radiu Mass Rotatio Moon Inclinatio Obliquit Density


    e s n s n y
    Sun 0 109 332,80 25-36* 9 --- --- 1.410
    0
    Mercury 0.39 0.38 0.05 58.8 0 7 0.1° 5.43
    Venus 0.72 0.95 0.89 244 0 3.394 177.4° 5.25
    Earth 1.0 1.00 1.00 1.00 1 0.000 23.45° 5.52
    Mars 1.5 0.53 0.11 1.029 2 1.850 25.19° 3.95
    Jupiter 5.2 11 318 0.411 16 1.308 3.12° 1.33
    Saturn 9.5 9 95 0.428 18 2.488 26.73° 0.69
    Uranus 19.2 4 17 0.748 15 0.774 97.86° 1.29
    Neptune 30.1 4 17 0.802 8 1.774 29.56° 1.64
    Pluto 39.5 0.18 0.002 0.267 1 17.15 119.6° 2.03

    Mercur
    Sun Venus Earth
    y

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