Solar System

The planets and the sun

The solar system encompasses the sun and all the celestial bodies which orbit around it: The nine planets of astrology: (Mercury, earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) together with their moons.
The solar system also includes numerous minor planets (asteroids, Dwarf Planets,) comets, meteors, and interstellar debris including gas and dust particles.

The planetary orbits around the Sun

The planets' orbits (Pluto being quite eccentric)

The planets and the Sun drawn to scale

Sun and planets with sizes as well as distances shown to scale

Dwarf planets are sorted by radius ascending from top down

Mercury's size and the earth

See also

• Aphelion
• Diurnal Movement
• Eccentricity
• Ecliptic
• Orbital Period
• Perihelion
• Retrograde Motion
• Transit

Weblinks

• Wikipedia: Solar System
• The Solar System (nineplanets.org)
• Essentials of Planet and Minor Planet Orbits (Video David Cochrane, 2015)
• The helical model - our solar system is a vortex (Animation, youtube)
• Explore Our Solar System in Depth (nasa.gov)
• To Scale: The Solar System (youtube; 7 min)
• The Planets, Op. 32 (orchestral suite by Gustav Holst; youTube)