According to Genesis, God created the lights in the heaven - the sun, moon, stars and planets - on the fourth day, and placed them in the firmament above the earth.
However, scientists say that the sun and stars existed long before the earth did. They now know that the earth is just one of the planets that circle the sun, and that these planets were almost certainly formed at the same time.
Planets do not make up the Earth's crust.
Planets do not make up the Earth's crust.
Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. There were six.
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The moon is Earth's closest neighbor in space and the only natural object to orbit it. Counting it in "planets away from Earth" does not make any sense as the planets revolve around the sun, not Earth.
Ptolemy thought the earth was the center of the universe, so that the stars, the other planets and the sun revolved around the earth; Copernicus realized that for the orbits of the planets to make sense, the earth and the other planets had to revolve around the sun.
Three things that make life on Earth possible are; water, temperature, and the atmosphere.
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The apparent movement of planets through the constellations is due to the combined effect of Earth's orbit around the Sun and the orbit of the planets themselves. As Earth moves in its orbit, the perspective from which we view the planets changes, creating the illusion of them moving relative to the background of fixed stars in the constellations.
Planets are visible in the night sky because they reflect sunlight. As they do not emit their own light like stars do, they rely on the Sun's light to make them visible to us here on Earth. The brightness and position of planets change as they orbit the Sun, making them observable at different times throughout the year.
Earth has an atmosphere unlike Mercury. Since Earth has an atmosphere, the meteriors burn up before they hit the ground. Mercury has little to no atmosphere so the meteriors are free to hit the ground and make craters.
The 8 planets we have including earth make up tour solar system.