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The Sun and it's eight major planets are part of the solar system. Our solar system also contains 5 dwarf planets (as of 2017) and more than 700,000 minor planets and other objects.

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What is the system consisting of the earths sun and the eight planets orbiting it called?

The Solar System


Are the eight planets under the sun or above it?

Neither. The eight planets orbit the sun, but in space there is no "under" or "over."


What is the sun and eight planets called?

Starting with the Sun you have: Sol, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.


What is made up of eight planets and other objects that orbit the sun?

This is called the solar system


Are dwarf planets satillites?

They are satellites of our sun, as with the eight major planets. They orbit the sun directly.


What makes up the eight planets and numerous other objects that orbit the sun?

That is called the Solar System.


Are there 8 planets from the sun?

There are eight true planets in our solar system.


What stars make up our solar system?

Only one star, called the Sun, and then eight planets, then dwarf planets, asteroids, comets and meteors.


What is shared by all the planets in the solar system?

The sun, each of the eight planets is in orbit around our sun.


What are the sun and the eight planets?

The sun is a star at the center of our solar system. The eight planets in our solar system, in order of distance from the sun, are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.


Earth is one of the eight what that orbits the sun?

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Why are your sun and eight planets called the solar system?

The term "solar system" comes from the Latin words "sol" meaning sun, and "sistema" meaning a set of things working together. Thus, the sun and its eight planets are referred to as the solar system because they all revolve around the sun due to its gravitational pull.