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Solar System
- Formed: About \(4.5\)billion years ago
- The solar system is gravitationally bound.
- Main Members: The Sun & The eight planets
- Other Members: Dwarf planets, Satellites, Comets, Asteroids and Meteoroids.
Sun
- It is a star.
- It is located at the centre of the Solar system.
- Members of the Solar system revolve around the sun.
- It accounts for \(99.8\)% of the mass of the Solar system.
- It is made up of extremely hot gases like Hydrogen and Helium.
- It gives light on its own, i.e. self-luminous.
- Surface temperature: about \(6,000\)° C.
- It is the source of light and heat energy to the entire Solar system.
Time taken for sunlight to reach the Earth is \(8.3\) minutes.
Planets of the Solar system
- Total number of planets: \(8\)
- All planets rotate west to east exceptVenus and Uranus (Rotates east to west).
- Orbit is the elliptical path in which the planets move around the sun.
- Planets revolve in their respective orbits due to the gravitational pull of the sun.
Human beings have sent spacecraft to all of the planets in our solar system.
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Easy to remember:
For Terrestrial Planets: My Very Educated Mother - Mercury Venus Earth Mars
For Jovian Planets: Just Served Us Noodles - Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune
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