What would be a good name for our solar system?
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It should be named after our "star" performer:\n\nSol\n\nor more appropriately\n\nThe Solaris System\n\nI think it already is.
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why don't u ask this question to our planet?it must give u the right answer,i asked it and it said its name was earth but u should ask it once more,in case it has changed its name from earth to something else..................like sun.
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THAT IS THE BEST QUESTION I'VE HEARD ON YAHOO ANSWERS.\n\nWhy have we waited until now to name the moon. Let's get that out of the way before we quit. here are my names:\n\nLunar Song\nHumoon\nFemoon\nMamoon\nGladys\nMoon\nEarthling\nLuna\nSelene\nArtemis\nEarthchild\nSuppysup
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If you mean our Solar system (there's other suns with planets revolving around them) then our Solar System is in our Galaxy...The Milky Way.
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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.
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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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There have been no planets added to the current list of nine in our solar system.  There have been several planets found around a number of nearby stars but those are not associated with our solar system.  To get a list of those go to exoplanets.org.\n\nThere have been a number of recent discoveries of object near or at the edge of our solar system.  These can have any number of names such as trans-Neptunian object, Kuiper Belt object, inner Oort cloud member, among others.  These are not planets.  They simply do not fit the criteria necessary to be called a planet but more importantly they have not been designated that title by the official naming authority for professional astronomy, the IAU.  \n\nThese objects resemble Pluto in some aspects but we actually know very little about them because they are so distant and small.  Among the more notable of these discoveries are Sedna, Xena and Quaoar.  They are small icy, rocky bodies that are believed to have changed very little since they formation 4.5 billion years ago whenthe solar system formed.
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My - Mercury\nVery - Venus\nEntertaining - Earth\nMother - Mars\nJust - Jupiter\nServed - Saturn\nUs - Uranus\nNine - Neptune\nPickles - Pluto
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what would they call us
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The official name for the planet Earth, as set by the International Astronomical Union, is Terra, after the Roman goddess Terra Mater.
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venus?\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Venus+%28planet%29&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1
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Solar System/Space\n\nResearch/Informational Sites\n\nhttp://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/solar.html\n\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html\n\nhttp://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/displaysection.cfm&sec=27\n\nhttp://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/\n\nhttp://www.multcolib.org/homework/astrohc.html\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/28327/?tqskip=1\n\nhttp://www.astrocentral.co.uk/beginners.html\n\nhttp://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/astron98.htm\n\nhttp://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/\n\nhttp://www.education.nasa.gov/home/faq_general.html\n\nhttp://www.windows.ucar.edu/\n\nhttp://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/cfapps/free/displaysubject.cfm?sid=8&subid=58\n\nWEBSITES ON THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND SPACE\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Solar_System_and_Space.htm\n\nGood luck for the future.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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"Earth" is the name the inhabitants of the third Solar planet call their world. This word is an ancient one, and is in English. All the logical paths that lead to a planet's name require the conclusion that no other planet could have this exact name.\n\n;-D Of course miracles happen every day! If some aliens like the name "Earth" then I won't stop them from calling their planet 'Earth!"
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Our solar system now has eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.\nThey are arranged outward from the sun as I've listed them.\nThat is with Mercury closest to the sun.\n\nWe also have three "Dwarf Planets"\nCeres, Pluto, and Eris.\nCeres being closest to the sun.
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Surprisingly, there is no total agreement about the size of our Solar System. Some say it's defined by the orbit of the outermost planet (used to be Pluto), while others say it's where the Sun's heliosphere ends. Then there's the definition that I personally favor -- the Oort Cloud of comets.\n\nHere's a breakdown of the three major sizes favored:\nPluto orbit - 5,900^6 km\nHeliosphere - 2.2^10 km \nOort Cloud  - 1.5^13 km (1.6 light years)
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Ganymede. It orbits Jupiter.
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Saturn.\n\nJust kidding.  It's Jupiter.