The Sun and the Moon, familiar entities in the sky, are part of a larger family- the solar system -
which comprises nine planets revolving round the Sun satellites that orbit round the planets lots
of minor bodies that include asteroids comets and interplanetary dust. Till recently, the solar
system was the only planetary system known to exist Apart from the Sun planets and their
satellites account for a major part of the Solar system. The nine planets can be divided into two
categories depending on their features-the inner terrestrial planets and the outer planets. The
inner planets, viz. Mercury Venus, the Earth and Mars are mainly rocky and their main mineral
constituents are silicates, iron and magnesium. The outer planets namely Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
Neptune and Pluto are huge gas planets (with the exception of Pluto) and are made up of
hydrogen, helium methane and ammonia.
2. All objects of the solar system revolve round a central body. It is the Sun in the case of planets,
comets and asteroids, and the planets in the case of satellites. This movement is a consequence
of gravity. To the fest approximation, the motion of the planets can be given by the three laws
of Kepler, Newton was later able to explain the movements on the basis of his theory of
universal gravitation. All planets have an elliptical orbit. The eccentricity parameter indicates
how elliptical the orbits are. Except for Mercury and Pluto, other planets have almost zero
eccentricity and hence the orbits are almost circular. Besides orbiting round the Sun, the planets
also rotate on their axis. The rotational period (sidereal period) is short for most planets except
in the case of Mercury and Venus. The current understanding is that the rotational period of
Mercury and Venus is not the original one but has progressively been reduced (braked)
throughout the history of their formation.
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