what is meant by the solar system?
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the sun and the celestial bodies which revolve around it form the solar system . it consists of large number of bodies such as planets ,comets,asteroids,and meteors .the gravitational attraction between the sun And these objects keep them revolving around it.
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ofessor of Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. Coauthor of The Planetary System; The Search for Life in the Universe; and numerous research articles.
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Solar system, assemblage consisting of the Sun—an average star in the Milky Way Galaxy—and those bodies orbiting around it: 8 (formerly 9) planets with about 210 known planetary satellites (moons); countless asteroids, some with their own satellites; comets and other icy bodies; and vast reaches of highly tenuous gas and dust known as the interplanetary medium.
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The shape of an object’s orbit is defined in terms of its eccentricity. For a perfectly circular orbit, the