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The solar system is the home to the sun, 8 planets including the Earth, the 176 known moons that orbit those planets, as well as a countless number of other celestial bodies that exist throughout this vast space. Such celestial bodies include things like asteroids, meteoroids and comets. Plus 5 dwarf planets.

The eight planets in order from closest to the sun to farthest away are:

1)Mercury

2) Venus

3) Earth

4) Mars

5) Jupiter

6) Saturn

7) Uranus

8) Neptune

Dwarf planets in no order

1) Pluto (down graded from major planet to dwarf in Aug 2006)

2) Makemake

3) Haumea

4) Ceres

5) Eris (the largest known dwarf in the solar system)

There are also a potential 58 more candidates for the status os dwarf planet

This information is correct as of the date 17th January 2012.

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