Solar System Solar System
The group of planets, satellites, comets, meteors, asteroids, and other celestial bodies that revolve around the Sun is called the Solar System.
All the objects in the solar system are bound together by gravity.
Origin Of The Solar System
Many scholars have presented different opinions to understand the origin of the solar system.
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Solar System Bodies
Out of the total eight planets, only the following five planets can be seen with the naked eye. Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars.
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Order of planets according to size (in descending order) - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Earth, Venus, Mars and Mercury i.e. the largest planet is Jupiter and the smallest is Mercury.
The order of the planets by density (in increasing order) - Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune, Mars and Venus.
Except for Venus and Uranus, all other planets have the same direction of rotation and orbit.
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