how far are all the planets in the solar system excluding new planet from the sun and whats their greek smbls?
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www.wikipedia.com\n\nType in mercury - note the distance and the greek symbol (which will look like a weird single letter)\n\nDo the same for venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune and if your teacher wants you to.. pluto.
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Ask those living in other planets!
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The sun. The sun is, on average, 93 million miles from the earth. Pluto orbits the sun over 2 billion miles away. The nearest star is over 4 light years away. (Light travels 186,000 miles, or about 300,000,000 meters, in a second - try figuring out how far that is in a year!) The nearest galaxy is over 4 million light years away - an amazing distance!
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There are 6 planets that even the ancients knew about.  From the sun outward, they are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.  (of  course, the ancients did not know that Earth was quite a bit like those little points of light that moved through the heavens).  William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781. Neptune was discovered on September 23, 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle. And Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto on February 18th, 1930.\n\nA few other discoveries may turn out to be planets.  In 2003 Mike Brown and two other astronomers discovered an object larger than Pluto, temporarily named 2003 UB313.  The International Astronomical Union will make a determination whether UB313 will be called a planet, and they'll also give it a proper name from mythology.  \n\nAnd astronomers have found other planet-sized bodies circling distant stars. As of May 18th, 193 of these "extra-solar" (meaning away from our sun) planets have been discovered.  See the exoplanet link below for more info.\n\nSo, to sum things up, from the sun outward, your list is:\n\nMercury\nVenus\nEarth\nMars\nJupiter\nSaturn\nUranus\nNeptune\nPluto\nUB 313 (maybe)\n\nand 193 planets somewhere else in our Milky Way galaxy.
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MERCURY: Closest to sun. Smallest in diameter.\nVENUS: Dense cloud cover. Hot surface temperature.\nEARTH: Home to humanity. High mineral content.\nMARS: Largest volcano (Olympus Mons) in solar system. Largest canyon in the solar system.\nSATURN: Surrounded by rings. Smallest gas giant in our solar system.\nJUPITER: Largest celestial body in the solar system (not counting the sun itself). Deepest gravity and atmosphere well.\nURANUS: It rotates on its side (pole points toward sun). Only planet with a Greek (rather than Roman) name.\nNEPTUNE: Has the largest moon (Triton) to orbit backward around a planet. Has the highest wind velocity (>1400 m/s).\nPLUTO: Alternates with Neptune for being "most distant" from the sun. Hotly debated whether it is actually a "planet".
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8 - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.  Almost assurdly there are no more big ones.  There are also a class of planets called "dwarf planets", including Pluto and a couple of others.
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According to the authority of the IAU, there are nine planets in our solar system. In increasing distance from the Sun they are (with the astronomical symbol in brackets):\n\nMercury (☿) \nVenus (♀) \nEarth (♁) with one confirmed natural satellite, Luna (the Moon) \nMars (♂) with two confirmed natural satellites, Phobos and Deimos \nJupiter (♃) with sixty-three confirmed natural satellites \nSaturn (♄) with forty-six confirmed natural satellites \nUranus () with twenty-seven confirmed natural satellites \nNeptune (♆) with thirteen confirmed natural satellites \nPluto (♇) with three confirmed natural satellites, Charon, S/2005 P 1 and S/2005 P 2 \nHowever, there is some pressure for Pluto to be reclassified as a Kuiper Belt object, especially in light of the discovery of 2003 UB313. This object, however, has not yet received a definitive classification from the IAU.\n\nSedna was widely touted as a planet when it was discovered in 2003, as it was the largest object found since Pluto. However, mainly due to its size still being smaller than Pluto's, it did not achieve planetary status from the IAU. However, the discovery in 2005 of 2003 UB313 (nicknamed Xena), with a size and mass larger than Pluto seems to have forced the issue. As of January 2006 it has not yet been accepted as a planet, but the IAU is expected to announce a definition of a planet soon, which will likely either see 2003 UB313 become a planet, or have Pluto stripped of its status.
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http://solarviews.com/\n\nAll the info about all the planets!
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Right now there are officially 9 planets. Depending on what we decide in the next year or so that number will change to 8, stay 9, go to 10, or even larger.  \n\nAn object larger than Pluto (2003 UB313) has been found, but we have not granted it official status as a planet. Don't expect this issue to be resolved any time soon, we've more or less "tabled" the issue until our general meeting in August, but there are a number of scientists in the IAU's Division of Planetary Sciences discussing this issue.\n\nRight now the newer astronomy textbooks generally have a section on "the planet controversy," and spend some time talking about all these newly discovered icy bodies.  They are all part of the Kuiper Belt, just like Pluto, and new books seem to be grabbing onto teaching about these objects much like the asteroids, addressing them as the left-overs of the formation of the solar system.  The Cosmic Perspective (a fairly decent intro astro textbook) for example has a chapter on "Remnants of Rock and Ice: Asteroids, Comets and Pluto"
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the planet?Pluto is the farthest planet from the Sun (usually) and by far the smallest. Pluto is smaller than seven of the solar system's moons (the Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and Triton). \n\n        orbit:    5,913,520,000 km (39.5 AU) from the Sun (average)\n        diameter: 2274 km\n        mass:     1.27e22 kg\nIn Roman mythology, Pluto (Greek: Hades) is the god of the underworld. The planet received this name (after many other suggestions) perhaps because it's so far from the Sun that it is in perpetual darkness and perhaps because "PL" are the initials of Percival Lowell. \nPluto was discovered in 1930 by a fortunate accident. Calculations which later turned out to be in error had predicted a planet beyond Neptune, based on the motions of Uranus and Neptune. Not knowing of the error, Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Arizona did a very careful sky survey which turned up Pluto anyway. \nAfter the discovery of Pluto, it was quickly determined that Pluto was too small to account for the discrepancies in the orbits of the other planets. The search for Planet X continued but nothing was found. Nor is it likely that it ever will be: the discrepancies vanish if the mass of Neptune determined from the Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune is used. There is no Planet X. But that doesn't mean there aren't other objects out there, only that there isn't a relatively large and close one like Planet X was assumed to be. In fact, we now know that there are a very large number of smaller objects in the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Neptune. \nPluto is the only planet that has not been visited by a spacecraft. Even the Hubble Space Telescope can resolve only the largest features on its surface (left and above). A spacecraft called New Horizons was launched in January 2006. If all goes well it should reach Pluto in 2015. \nFortunately, Pluto has a satellite, Charon. By good fortune, Charon was discovered (in 1978) just before its orbital plane moved edge-on toward the inner solar system. It was therefore possible to observe many transits of Pluto over Charon and vice versa. By carefully calculating which portions of which body would be covered at what times, and watching brightness curves, astronomers were able to construct a rough map of light and dark areas on both bodies. \nIn late 2005, a team using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered two additional tiny moons orbiting Pluto. Provisionally designated S/2005 P1 and S/2005 P2, they will be assigned real names when the discovery is confirmed. They are estimated to be between 60 and 200 kilometers in diameter. \nPluto's radius is not well known. JPL's value of 1137 is given with an error of +/-8, almost one percent. \nThough the sum of the masses of Pluto and Charon is known pretty well (it can be determined from careful measurements of the period and radius of Charon's orbit and basic physics) the individual masses of Pluto and Charon are difficult to determine because that requires determining their mutual motions around the center of mass of the system which requires much finer measurements -- they're so small and far away that even HST has difficulty. The ratio of their masses is probably somewhere between 0.084 and 0.157; more observations are underway but we won't get really accurate data until a spacecraft is sent. \nPluto is the second most contrasty body in the Solar System (after Iapetus). \nThere are some who think Pluto would be better classified as a large asteroid or comet rather than as a planet. Some consider it to be one of the larger Kuiper Belt objects (also known as Trans-Neptunian Objects). There is considerable merit to the latter position, but historically Pluto has been classified as a planet and it is very likely to remain so. Further complicating the situation, one such object (2003UB313) was recently discovered that is almost certainly larger than Pluto. Should it, too, be classified as
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I believe all the planets in our solar system formed about the same time, around 5 and a half billion years ago or so. I believe there is a younger solar system than ours around the star called Vega. It is in our galaxy and I believe it is around 26 light years away, the speed of light being 186,000 miles a second. The distance is the number of miles light would travel in 26 years, if that makes any sense. Vega is a blue star, a very young star. Our sun is a G star, a bit older. The stars are categorized O,B,A,F,G,K,M. The way to remember is the phrase "Oh, be a fine girl kiss me" with each letter corresponding to star categories. Vega is an O star, the youngest. I hope that isn't too complicated, I know your six.\n\nWhat you might do is get some colored balls to represent each of the star categories, some paint (in case the ball is the wrong color), and some cardboard, sticks, and glue. The M star is a red supergiant so a red dodge ball, the K is a red giant but not supergiant, so a red delicious apple, the O is blue-white, the G is golden, yellow-orange like our sun. The B, A, and F stars I do not know much about.
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Unknown, of course. But the largest planet in our SOLAR SYSTEM is Jupiter.
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There are 9 bodies in our solar system officially recognized as "planets" by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).\n\nThere are a number of large bodies, such as asteroid Ceres (between Mars and Jupiter), and Sedna (way out beyond the Kuiper Belt) that are considered candidates, but are unlikely to ever be recognized as planets.  Pluto is sometimes considered too small to be called a planet, but just for historical reasons, the IAU is unlikely ever to "downgrade" it.  \n\nIn 2003 a large body was discovered outside the orbit of Neptune, currently called UB313, and appears to be larger than Pluto.  The IAU is reviewing the definition of "planet" and is scheduled to make a decision in September of this year (2006) as to whether UB313 is officially the 10th planet.  Hopefully then they will give it a cool Greek name. :-)
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Nine in our solar system - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
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solar planets:\n\nmercury\nvenus\nearth\nmars\njupiter\nsaturn\nuranus\nneptune\npluto\n\nextrasolar planets:\n\nHD 117618\nHD 121504\nHD 130322\nHD 147513\nHD 149026\nHD 150706\nHD 168746\nHD 177830\nHD 179949\nHD 187123\nHD 188015\nHD 188753\nHD 188753 Ab\nHD 189733\nHD 192263\nHD 196885\nHD 202206\nHD 20367\nHD 208487\nHD 209458 b\nHD 210277\nHD 216770\nHD 2638\nHD 27894\nHD 28185\nHD 330075\nHD 40979\nHD 4208\nHD 4308\nHD 45350\nHD 46375\nHD 49674\nHD 52265\nHD 63454\nHD 6434\nHD 65216\nHD 75289\nHD 76700\nHD 83443\nHD 88133\nHD 93083\nHO Librae\nIota Draconis\nIota Horologii\nOGLE 2003-BLG-235\nOGLE-2005-BLG-390L\nOGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb\nOGLE-TR-10 b\nOGLE-TR-10b\nOGLE-TR-111b\nOGLE-TR-111c\nOGLE-TR-132b\nHD 101930\nHD 102117\nHD 102195\nHD 107146\nHD 108147\nHD 114386\nHD 114729\nHD 114762\nHD 114783\n14 Herculis\n16 Cygni\n23 Librae\n2M1207b\n51 Pegasi b\n54 Piscium\n70 Virginis b\n79 Ceti\n83 Leonis\n\ni cant remember all
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in our solar system: 9\n\neven though larger bodies exist in our solar system, we're too used to having 9 planets to ever change.
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Our solar system contains a G type star (the Sun), 4 terrestrial (rocky) planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. \n4 Gas Giants: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.\nSeveral hundred moons\nSeveral thousand asteroids, kuiper belt objects, dwarf planets, and comets.\nLots of gas and dust\nBelow are some good sites for kids to do research.