Solar System Name List

The inner solar system and the terrestrial planets.

Solar system name list.

Planets in the solar system. It consists of the sun and eight official planets including neptune uranus saturn jupiter mars earth venus mercury more than 130 satellites of the planets at least three dwarf planets many comets and asteroids. Proxima centauri the closest star to our solar system has two planets b and c and a third unconfirmed sub earth. The solar system formed 4 6 billion years ago.

This is a list of solar system objects by orbit by distance from the sun. In a highly controversial decision the international astronomical union ultimately decided in 2006 to designate pluto as a dwarf planet reducing the list of the solar system s true planets to. Earth the only planet that is known to have life. List of planets in the solar system 9 major planets you should know.

The farthest confirmed multiplanetary system is ogle 2012 blg 0026l at 13 300 ly away. Of the objects that orbit the sun directly the largest are the eight planets with the remainder being smaller objects the dwarf planets and small solar system bodies of the objects that orbit the sun indirectly the moons two are larger than the smallest planet. The solar system is the gravitationally bound system of the sun and the objects that orbit it either directly or indirectly. Mercury the planet with the second highest temperature in the solar system and the closest planet to the sun.

Sometimes called earth s twin because venus and earth are very similar. The sun a spectral class g2v star. Venus the warmest planet.