For other uses, see Solar System (disambiguation). Solar System The Sun , planets, moons and dwarf planets [a] (true color, size to scale, distances not to scale) Age 4.568 billion years...
This article is about a class of Solar system objects. For other uses, see Centaur (disambiguation). Positions of known outer Solar System objects as of 2017. The centaurs orbit generally...
This is a list of officially named craters in the Solar System as named by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. As of 2017, there is a total of 5,223 craters on 40...
For a list of named planets, dwarf planets and stars, see: List of gravitationally rounded objects in the Solar System For a list of named minor planets see: List of named minor planets....
The solar system has one star, eight planets, five dwarf planets, at least 290 moons, more than 1.3 million asteroids, and about 3,900 comets.
Planet Name, Date of Discovery, Distance from Sun (AU), Composition ; Mercury, 1st millennium BC, 0.39, Solid, rocky ; Venus, 2nd millennium BC, 0.72, Solid, rocky ; Earth, N/A, 1.00, Solid, rocky with liquid water
Most planetary moons probably formed out the discs of gas and dust circulating around planets in the early solar system. There are hundreds of moons in our solar system – even asteroids have been found to have small companion moons. Of the terrestrial (rocky) planets of the inner solar system, neither Mercury nor Venus have any moons at all, Earth has one and Mars has its two small moons. In the outer s ...
Goldstone Solar System Radar Goldstone Deep Space Network Alternative names Goldstone radar Part of DSS 14 Location(s) California , Pacific States Region Coordinates 35°25′36″N 116°53...
com Commons Related media on Commons [edit on Wikidata ] The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a concentrated solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert. It is located at the base...
Solar system, assemblage consisting of the Sun and those bodies orbiting it: 8 planets with about 210 known planetary satellites; many asteroids, some with their own satellites; comets and other ic...