What is the solar system?
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solar system is the system which includes the sun and the nine planets along with the satellites of each planet , asteroids , meteorites.
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Pluto. \n\nThe International Astronomical Union (IAU), at a meeting in August 2006, voted on their first "official" definition of a planet. Based on this new definition, Pluto is no longer a planet. According to the IAU's definition, our Solar System has eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. In the new scheme, Pluto will be one of several "dwarf planets" in the Solar System; but "dwarf planets" are not considered true planets. THere is still a lot of disagreement within the community on the definition of a planet.\n\nHere's the definition of a planet (found at wikipedia): \n\nThe International Astronomical Union defines "planet" as a celestial body that, within the Solar System,\n\n(a) is in orbit around the Sun; \n(b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape; and \n(c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit; \nor within another system, \n\n(Pluto fails to meet the third condition above)\n\n(i) is in orbit around a star or stellar remnants; \n(ii) has a mass below the limiting mass for thermonuclear fusion of deuterium; and \n(iii) is above the minimum mass/size requirement for planetary status in the Solar System.
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The sun is the center of the solar system, revolving around it are the nine planets namely: mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune and pluto.
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Yes. It's actually in our own solar system.  Whether it is a planet or not is the real question.  It is really small.  While bigger than pluto, it is still smaller than the Earth's moon!
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It contains 99.9% of the mass of the solar system. \nall energy for life comes from the sun in our solar system.
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In astronomy, heliocentrism is the belief that the Sun is at the center of the Universe and/or the Solar System. The word is derived from the Greek (Helios = "Sun" and kentron = "Center"). Historically, heliocentrism is opposed to geocentrism and currently to modern geocentrism, which places the earth at the center. (The distinction between the Solar System and the Universe was not clear until modern times, but extremely important relative to the controversy over cosmology and religion.) In the 16th and 17th centuries, when the theory was revived and defended by Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler, it became the center of a major dispute.\n\nTo anyone who stands and looks at the sky, it seems clear that the earth stays in one place while everything in the sky rises and sets or goes around once every day. Observing over a longer time, one sees more complicated movements. The Sun makes a slower circle over the course of a year; the planets have similar motions, but they sometimes turn around and move in the reverse direction for a while (retrograde motion). As these motions became better understood, they required more and more elaborate descriptions, the most famous of which was the Ptolemaic system, formulated in the 2nd century.
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The Solar System\nHow to Drop an Egg w/o it breaking\nHuman Body
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i suspect that the solar system is located in a spur of the sagittarius arm.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_Arm
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All the planetary objects in the solar system revolves round the Sun. Then how can the earth be the centre. The center of the Solar system must be at the Sun. The Sun is relatively stationary in the solar system.
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mathamatics is a tool,or a language and nothing else. But a very powerful tool if you know how to use it correctly.\n Everything that happens in the solar system could be predicted. Its called orbital mechaics and uses mathamitics to get the results we need. Answers could be understood by  any body any where in the world no matter who they are. ( No discrimination....thats why its so beautiful).
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Solar system is 11 letters in size.\n\nTHE solar system or A solar system are different matters\n\nWe have these things in English called defintite articles. Words like "A" and "THE". Learn them. Use them.
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Earth is the third planet from the Sun. It is the largest of the solar system's terrestrial planets, and the only planetary body that modern science confirms as harboring life. Scientific evidence indicates that the planet formed around 4.57 billion (4.57×109) years ago, and shortly thereafter (4.533 billion years ago) acquired its single natural satellite, the Moon.
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In astronomy, heliocentrism is the theory that the Sun is at the center of the Universe and/or the Solar System. The word is derived from the Greek (Helios = "Sun" and kentron = "Center"). Historically, heliocentrism is opposed to geocentrism and currently to modern geocentrism, which places the earth at the center. (The distinction between the Solar System and the Universe was not clear until modern times, but extremely important relative to the controversy over cosmology and religion.
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Never heard about it. There are many places in the web \n\nhttp://astronomylinks.com/solar_system/planets/\nhttp://www.absoluteastronomy.com/\nhttp://curious.astro.cornell.edu/planets.php
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I know what you're thinking. Is the solar system a molecule in a vastly larger scaled uber-universe. The answer is no. The physical characteristics of planets ect are different than the physical characteristics of protons ect.
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The Milky Way is the galaxy which is the home of our Solar System together with at least 200 billion other stars (more recent estimates have given numbers around 400 billion) and their planets, and thousands of clusters and nebulae.\nAs a galaxy, the Milky Way is actually a giant, as its mass is probably between 750 billion and one trillion solar masses, and its diameter is about 100,000 light years. Radio astronomial investigations of the distribution of hydrogen clouds have revealed that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy.\nOur solar system is thus situated within the outer regions of this galaxy, well within the disk and only about 20 light years "above" the equatorial symmetry plane (to the direction of the Galactic North Pole, see below), but about 28,000 light years from the Galactic Center.
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There is only one solar system, and it is the one our planet is part of.\n\nThe solar system comprises the Earth's Sun and the retinue of celestial objects gravitationally bound to it. Traditionally, this is said to consist of the Sun, nine planets and their 158 currently known moons; however, a large number of other objects, including asteroids, meteoroids, planetoids, comets, and interplanetary dust, orbit the Sun as well. Astornomers are debating over the presence of a tenth planet.\n\nAlthough the term "solar system" is frequently applied to other star systems and the planetary systems which may comprise them, it should strictly refer to Earth's system specifically: the word "solar" is derived from the Sun's Latin name, Sol, and thus the term sometimes appears as Solar System. When talking about another stellar system or planetary system, including the stars and bodies associated with them through gravity, it is usual to shorten it to drop the term "stellar" and form names such as "the Alpha Centauri system" or "the 51 Pegasi system".