It is the closest planet to the sun so it orbits the sun very quickly just in 88 days.
Solar system planets names in order.
To remember that you could write a story to help yourself.
Mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus neptune.
Some people can simply memorize this one line poem of sorts and be done with the exercise and they do not require a special trick for keeping the solar system order straight in their minds.
The planets in that order would be pluto mercury mars venus earth neptune uranus saturn and jupiter.
1781 by william herschel was originally thought to be a star named for the personification of heaven in ancient myth diameter.
Here are a list of the 9 planets in their order in the solar system.
If you add in the dwarf planets ceres is located in the asteroid belt between mars and jupiter while the remaining dwarf planets are in the outer solar system and in order from the sun are pluto.
31 763 miles 51 120 km orbit.
Venus is the second planet in our solar system and is named after the roman goddess of love.
In fact it accounts for 99 of the solar systems mass.
The earth is the.
For example you could say that pluto was skating and hit mercury who was eating a mars chocolate bar.
As the term is applied to bodies in earth s solar system the international astronomical union iau lists eight planets orbiting the sun.
It is slightly smaller than.
Here is a rundown on the 9 planets of the solar system.
Pluto also was listed as a planet until 2006.
84 earth years day.
The sun is the largest object in the solar system.
The first planet in our solar system is mercury.
Its surface is gray to orange in color and it is covered with craters.
Astronomers estimate that the solar system is more than 4 5 billion years old.