Solar System Animation

Meteoroids

• Meteoroids are small pieces of rock or metal floating in outer space.
• Meteoroids which enter the Earth’s atmosphere are called meteors.
• Meteors which do not burn completely and reach the Earth’s surface are called meteoroids.
• Meteorites which fall to the ground will make huge craters. One such crate is found in Arizona, the United State of America.

  

The Constituents of the Solar System

• The Solar System consists of nine planets and the Sun
• The other members of the Solar System are natural Satellites, asteroids, comets and meteoroids.
• The nine planets in the Solar System beginning with the nearest to the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
• The relative of the Sun its nine planets are shown in above picture.
• All nine planets are moving around the Sun each following its own oval path called orbit.
• Mercury takes shortest time complete one orbit, while Pluto takes the longest.
• This due to the fact that Mercury is nearest planet to the Sun as shown in following table.

 

The Solar System