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    The Solar System consists of the Sun and everything that orbits it, including 8 planets that orbit directly as well as smaller objects like dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets. It formed 4.6 billion years ago from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud. The vast majority of its mass is contained in the Sun and Jupiter. The inner terrestrial planets are rocky, while the outer gas giants are massive and composed of hydrogen and helium or ices. The Solar System also contains regions populated by smaller objects like the asteroid belt and Kuiper Belt.

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    The Solar System consists of the Sun and everything that orbits it, including 8 planets that orbit directly as well as smaller objects like dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets. It formed 4.6 billion years ago from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud. The vast majority of its mass is contained in the Sun and Jupiter. The inner terrestrial planets are rocky, while the outer gas giants are massive and composed of hydrogen and helium or ices. The Solar System also contains regions populated by smaller objects like the asteroid belt and Kuiper Belt.

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    The Solar System consists of the Sun and everything that orbits it, including 8 planets that orbit directly as well as smaller objects like dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets. It formed 4.6 billion years ago from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud. The vast majority of its mass is contained in the Sun and Jupiter. The inner terrestrial planets are rocky, while the outer gas giants are massive and composed of hydrogen and helium or ices. The Solar System also contains regions populated by smaller objects like the asteroid belt and Kuiper Belt.

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    This article is about the Sun and its planetary system.

    For other similar systems, see Star system


    and Planetary system.
    Solar System

    The Sun and planets of the Solar System. Sizes but
    not distances are to scale.
    Age 4.568 billion years
    Location
    Local Interstellar
    Cloud, Local Bubble,
    OrionCygnus Arm,
    Milky Way
    System mass 1.0014 Solar masses
    Nearest star
    Proxima
    Centauri (4.22 ly)
    Alpha Centauri
    system (4.37 ly)
    Nearest known
    planetary system
    Alpha Centauri system (4.37
    ly)
    Planetary system
    Semi-major axis of
    outer planet
    (Neptune)
    30.10 AU (4.503 billion km)
    Distance to Kuiper
    cliff
    50 AU
    Populations
    Stars 1 (Sun)
    Planets
    8 (Mercury
    Venus
    Earth
    Mars

    Jupiter
    Saturn
    Uranus
    Neptune)
    Known dwarf
    planets
    Possibly several hundred;
    [1]

    five currently recognized by
    the IAU
    (Ceres
    Pluto
    Haumea
    Makemake
    Eris)
    Known natural
    satellites
    427
    (170 planetary
    [2]

    257 minor planetary
    [3]
    )
    Known minor
    planets
    644,275 (as of 2014-06-18)
    [4]

    Known comets 3,272 (as of 2014-06-18)
    [4]

    Identified rounded
    satellites
    19
    Orbit about Galactic Center
    Invariable-to-
    galactic plane
    inclination
    60.198 (ecliptic)
    Distance to Galactic
    Center
    27,000 1,000 ly
    Orbital speed 220 km/s
    Orbital period 225250 Myr
    Star-related properties
    Spectral type G2V
    Frost line 5 AU
    [5]

    Distance to
    heliopause
    120 AU
    Hill sphere radius 12 ly
    The Solar System
    [a]
    comprises the Sun and the objects that orbit it, whether they orbit it directly
    or by orbiting other objects that orbit it directly.
    [b]
    Of those objects that orbit the Sun directly, the
    largest eight are the planets
    [c]
    that form the planetary system around it, while the remainder are
    significantly smaller objects, such as dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies (SSSBs) such
    as comets and asteroids.
    [d]

    The Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a giant
    molecular cloud. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun, with most of the remaining
    mass contained in Jupiter. The four smaller inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, also
    called the terrestrial planets, are primarily composed of rock and metal. The four outer planets,
    called the gas giants, are substantially more massive than the terrestrials. The two largest, Jupiter
    and Saturn, are composed mainly of hydrogen and helium; the two outermost planets, Uranus
    and Neptune, are composed largely of substances with relatively high melting points (compared
    with hydrogen and helium), called ices, such as water, ammonia and methane, and are often
    referred to separately as "ice giants". All planets have almost circular orbits that lie within a
    nearly flat disc called the ecliptic plane.
    The Solar System also contains regions populated by smaller objects.
    [d]
    The asteroid belt, which
    lies between Mars and Jupiter, mostly contains objects composed, like the terrestrial planets, of
    rock and metal. Beyond Neptune's orbit lie the Kuiper belt and scattered disc, linked populations
    of trans-Neptunian objects composed mostly of ices. Within these populations are several dozen
    to more than ten thousand objects that may be large enough to have been rounded by their own
    gravity.
    [10]
    Such objects are referred to as dwarf planets. Identified dwarf planets include the
    asteroid Ceres and the trans-Neptunian objects Pluto and Eris.
    [d]
    In addition to these two regions,
    various other small-body populations, including comets, centaurs and interplanetary dust, freely
    travel between regions. Six of the planets, at least three of the dwarf planets, and many of the
    smaller bodies are orbited by natural satellites,
    [e]
    usually termed "moons" after Earth's Moon.
    Each of the outer planets is encircled by planetary rings of dust and other small objects.
    The solar wind, a flow of plasma from the Sun, creates a bubble in the interstellar medium
    known as the heliosphere, which extends out to the edge of the scattered disc. The Oort cloud,
    which is believed to be the source for long-period comets, may also exist at a distance roughly a
    thousand times further than the heliosphere. The heliopause is the point at which pressure from
    the solar wind is equal to the opposing pressure of interstellar wind. The Solar System is located
    in the Orion Arm, 26,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way.

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