what does the solar system mean?
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Is the sun and all the other things orbiting him or orbiting what`s orbiting the sun. I believe that`s the simplest explanation.
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orbit:    57,910,000 km (0.38 AU) from Sun\n        diameter: 4,880 km\n        mass:     3.30e23 kg\nMercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, orbiting the Sun once every 88 days. It ranges in brightness from about −2.0 to 5.5 in apparent magnitude, but is not easily seen — its greatest angular separation from the Sun (greatest elongation) is only 28.3° (it can only be seen in twilight). Comparatively little is known about the planet: the only spacecraft to approach Mercury was Mariner 10 from 1974 to 1975, which mapped only 40%–45% of the planet's surface.\n\nPhysically, Mercury is similar in appearance to the Moon as it is heavily cratered. It has no natural satellites and no substantial atmosphere. The planet has a large iron core which generates a magnetic field about 1% as strong as that of the Earth. Surface temperatures on Mercury range from about 90 to 700 K (-180 to 430°C) , with the subsolar point being the hottest and the bottoms of craters near the poles being the coldest.\n\nThe Romans named the planet after the fleet-footed messenger god Mercury, probably for its fast apparent motion in the twilight sky. The astronomical symbol for Mercury, displayed at the top of the infobox, is a stylized version of the god's head and winged hat atop his caduceus, an ancient astrological symbol. Before the 5th century BC, Greek astronomers believed the planet to be two separate objects: one visible only at sunrise, the other only at sunset. In India, the planet was named Budha (बुध), after the son of Chandra (the Moon). The Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese cultures refer to the planet as the water star, based on the Five Elements. The Hebrews named it Kokhav Hamah (כוכב חמה), "the star of the hot one" ("the hot one" being the Sun).
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An inner planet is any one of the Solar system's rocky planets that lie inside the asteroid belt: Mercury (planet), Venus (planet), Earth (planet) and Mars (planet). The remaining planets are deemed the outer planets.\n\nThis classification should not be confused with the term inferior planet which designates those planets which lie inside the Earth's orbit (thus Mercury and Venus only).
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Yes. The moon is a satellite of the earth and it, along with all the other planets and moons in our planetary system go about  making up our solar system.\n\nSolar system meaning our planetary system rotating around our sun and our sun being referred to as sol, thus becomes our solar system. \n\nGood question, \n\nDarryl S.
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An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. An asteroid is an example of a minor planet (or planetoid). These minor planets are much less massive than even small planets such as Mercury or Mars. It is believed that most asteroids are remnants of the protoplanetary disc. The incorporation of these remnants into the planets during the formation of the Solar System was prevented by large gravitational perturbations induced by Jupiter. Some asteroids have moons. The vast majority of the asteroids are within the main asteroid belt, with elliptical orbits between those of Mars and Jupiter.
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Someone just added an extra "e" in it.\n\nOur Solar System is in a Galaxy called the Milky Way. The Milky Way comprises stars and other material lying within a galactic plane. Relative to the celestial equator, the Milky Way passes as far north as the constellation of Cassiopeia and as far south as the constellation of Crux, indicating the high inclination of Earth's equatorial plane and the plane of the ecliptic relative to the galactic plane.\n\nThe fact that the Milky Way divides the night sky into two roughly equal hemispheres indicates that the solar system lies close to the galactic plane.\n\nThe main disk of the Milky Way Galaxy is about 80,000 to 100,000 light years in diameter, about 250-300 thousand light years in circumference, and outside the Galactic core, about 1,000 light years in thickness. It is composed of 200 to 400 billion stars.
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Earth refers to this planet.  World could mean any planet that is inhabited.  \n\nSince we don't know of any other inhabited planets, the two are pretty much interchangeable outside of science fiction.
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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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The ONLY star in the solar system is the Sun.
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Our solar system- the Sun, planets, Kuiper belt and Oort cloud, everything orbiting the sun even many times further than the orbit of Pluto- is thought to have condensed from a vast cloud of interstellar gas some billions of years ago when that cloud was shocked or squeezed by a supernova explosion. The dust and grains that condensed out of the cooling solar gas aggregated to form larger fragments of rock. Chondritic meteorites are basically just such collections of grains and fragments that have been compacted together to form a larger piece of rock and eventually small planetary bodies. Such bodies are termed planetesimals when they become roughly as large as asteroids (several kilometres to a few hundred kilometres in dimension). The larger they grow, the greater the gravitational attraction that the planetesimals exert and hence the more effectively they sweep up additional particles and rock fragments while circling the Sun. (Britannica CD) \n\nBecause that initial shockwave came from a particular direction and because the cloud was not of uniform density, the particles had a net rotation around their center of gravity. Humans subsequently identified that direction as "counterclockwise as viewed from above the north pole of the sun". As the bodies of the solar system grew by accretion, particles swept up from different distances from the center of gravity (the sun) had different orbital velocities. Analogously, water swirling down a drain moves slower further and faster closer to the center. \n\nGalileo and Newton showed that rotational energy is conserved: The sun and planets ‘inherited' their spin from the orbits of their constituent particles, so to speak. Today, some five billion years later, all that rotational energy is still conserved in the rotations and revolutions of the bodies of the solar system. Our solar system is not unchanging, though. Because of gravitational interactions between moons and their planets, between the planets, meteors and comets themselves and interactions between the solar wind and the magnetospheres of the planets, rotational energy is still be ‘traded' back and forth: Mercury orbits in a 3:2 resonance with its rotation, our day is getting longer while the moon only shows one face towards us, the rings of the gas giants are temporary phenomena,... But that's another story.\n\nIn other words, An act of GOD
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Please make a distinction between the solar system and the Milky Way. The solar system consists of the sun, and the planets, asteroids, and comets orbiting the sun. There is one star in the solar system (the sun). The Milky Way is our galaxy and consists of billions of stars and presumably whatever planets, etc. orbit those other stars. The difference in size is quite considerable. If the solar system was only 2 yards across, the Mily Way would be 100,000 *miles* across.\n\nThe planets in our solar system are (in order from the sun) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Xena (unofficial name...may become Sedna). Most asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter, but not all of them.
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The body of planets, their moons and other objects that orbit the Sun.
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A galaxy is a swirling collection of stars. our own Milky Way galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, of which our sun is only one amongst these billions and billions.\n\nA solar system is just a single sun that has planets revolving around it. A galaxy is made up of billions of such suns. And some scientists believe that as many as 25% of the stars could have planets. That means billions and billions of solar systems in our own galaxy.\n\nHere'a a picture of our closest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy. It has close to one-trillion stars.\n\nHope this heolps. Cheers\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy
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omg what do you think????-.- the universe-duh! the solar system kinda is in the universe!!!! omg...stupid question (no offence)
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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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The Sun, its pull is making the planets in this system orbit.
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In a word - yes\n\nAll the planets affect each other, although not always in major ways. The solar system can be considered as a two body system (the sun and Jupiter) with perturbations (all the other planets).\n\nFor an example of this, look at the precession of the perehelion of Mercury. General Relativity accounts for a tiny amount of that, but the rest is from the effects of the other bodies in the solar system.