The Solar System

• What is the solar system?


  Objects that orbit around the sun.
• How many stars are there in the solar system?


  One - the sun
• How many planets are there in the solar system?


  8
• What are the 8 planets in order from the sun?


  Mercury

  Venus

  Earth

  Mars

  Jupiter

  Saturn

  Uranus

  Neptune
• What do the planets in the solar system orbit?


  Sun
• What is the moon?


  A natural object that orbits a planet
• What is an artificial satellite?


  A man-made object that orbits a planet
• What is a dwarf planet?


  A nearly round object that obits a star but doesn't have the gravitational strength of a true planet
• Which galaxy is the solar system part of?


  Milky Way