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.
The sun is the primary source of external heat for all eight planets, although in the case of some planets it doesn't provide a lot of heat. The sun also is the largest single factor affecting the orbits of the eight planets.
The planets closest to the sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
The largest objects that orbit the sun are planets.
The planets around the sun move in a path called an orbit. This orbit is the result of the gravitational pull between the planets and the sun, causing them to travel in a curved path around the sun.
A year on a planet is the time it takes for that planet to complete one orbit around the sun. For example, on Earth, a year is about 365 days. The length of a year varies for each of the eight planets in our solar system based on their distance from the sun and their orbital speed.
The Solar System
Neither. The eight planets orbit the sun, but in space there is no "under" or "over."
Starting with the Sun you have: Sol, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
This is called the solar system
They are satellites of our sun, as with the eight major planets. They orbit the sun directly.
That is called the Solar System.
There are eight true planets in our solar system.
Only one star, called the Sun, and then eight planets, then dwarf planets, asteroids, comets and meteors.
The sun, each of the eight planets is in orbit around our sun.
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.
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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.