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    The Solar System: Mercury To Neptune

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    The solar system contains the Sun and objects that orbit around it, including 8 planets. The planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Smaller objects like asteroids, comets, and dwarf planets like Pluto also orbit the Sun. Gravity from the Sun pulls on the planets and keeps them in orbit around it in elliptical paths. Artificial satellites also orbit Earth and are used for communications, navigation, weather monitoring, mapping, and other purposes.

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    The Solar System: Mercury To Neptune

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    The solar system contains the Sun and objects that orbit around it, including 8 planets. The planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Smaller objects like asteroids, comets, and dwarf planets like Pluto also orbit the Sun. Gravity from the Sun pulls on the planets and keeps them in orbit around it in elliptical paths. Artificial satellites also orbit Earth and are used for communications, navigation, weather monitoring, mapping, and other purposes.

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    The solar system contains the Sun and objects that orbit around it, including 8 planets. The planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Smaller objects like asteroids, comets, and dwarf planets like Pluto also orbit the Sun. Gravity from the Sun pulls on the planets and keeps them in orbit around it in elliptical paths. Artificial satellites also orbit Earth and are used for communications, navigation, weather monitoring, mapping, and other purposes.

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    The solar system

    The universe contains over 100 billion galaxies. A galaxy is a group of billions of stars.
    Our own galaxy is called the Milky Way, and it contains about 300 billion stars
    (300,000,000,000) and one of these is our Sun.
    Planets and other objects go round the Sun, and these make up the solar system, with
    the Sun at the centre. The solar system contains different types of objects including:

    a star - the Sun

    planets, which go around the Sun

    satellites, which go around planets

    smaller objects such as asteroids and comets

    The planets in order from the Sun

    Mercury to Neptune
    There are eight planets in the solar system. Starting with Mercury, which is the closest
    to the Sun, the planets are:

    Mercury

    Venus

    Earth

    Mars

    Jupiter

    Saturn

    Uranus

    Neptune
    If you can't remember the correct order, try this sentence, or make one up of your own:
    My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming

    Pluto and the dwarf planets


    Scientists have discovered other objects orbiting the Sun. These
    includecomets, asteroids and dwarf planets, like Pluto and Eris.
    Pluto used to be considered the ninth planet in our solar system. But in 2006 scientists
    renamed it as a dwarf planet. So now we have 8 planets in the solar system.

    Gravitational forces
    All objects are attracted towards each other by a force called gravity. Gravity only
    becomes noticeable when there is a really massive object like a star, planet or moon. You
    can find out more about gravity in the Revision Bite called Forces.

    Gravity and the solar system


    Gravitational forces between the Sun and planets keep the planets in orbitaround the
    Sun. Without these forces, the planets would fly off into deep space.
    Their orbits are slightly squashed circles called ellipses. Diagrams often show the orbits
    as very squashed, but this is just to get a sense of perspective and to fit the diagrams
    onto the page.
    The planets furthest out are also the coldest because they receive the least heat energy
    from the Sun.

    Satellites
    Artificial satellites
    Artificial satellites are built by people and launched by rockets into space, where they
    orbit around the Earth. These are some of the things that artificial satellites are used for:

    communications, including broadcasting television programmes and relaying


    telephone calls

    Global Positioning System (GPS) and Galileo satellites for navigation

    collecting information to help with weather forecasts

    scientific surveys of the Earth's surface

    map making

    spying

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/environment_earth_universe/astronom
    y_space/activity/

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