Solar System Name List

It has one natural satellite the moon.

Solar system name list.

Sometimes called earth s twin because venus and earth are very similar. Of the objects that orbit the sun directly the largest are the eight planets with the remainder being smaller objects the dwarf planets and small solar system bodies of the objects that orbit the sun indirectly the moons two are larger than the smallest planet. Planets in the solar system. The sun a spectral class g2v star.

It consists of the sun and eight official planets including neptune uranus saturn jupiter mars earth venus mercury more than 130 satellites of the planets at least three dwarf planets many comets and asteroids. This is a list of solar system objects by orbit by distance from the sun. Earth the only planet that is known to have life. The farthest confirmed multiplanetary system is ogle 2012 blg 0026l at 13 300 ly away.

The nearest system with three or more confirmed planets is luyten s star with four known. Venus the warmest planet. The inner solar system and the terrestrial planets. Mercury the planet with the second highest temperature in the solar system and the closest planet to the sun.

List of planets in the solar system 9 major planets you should know. In a highly controversial decision the international astronomical union ultimately decided in 2006 to designate pluto as a dwarf planet reducing the list of the solar system s true planets to. Proxima centauri the closest star to our solar system has two planets b and c and a third unconfirmed sub earth.