THE SOLAR SYSTEM

A BRIEF ANALYSIS
 COMPONENTS OF SOLAR SYSTEM
PLANETS AND
SUN
SATELLITES

DWARF PLANET ASTEROID

INTERPLANETARY
COMET
MEDIUM
 SUN
The Sun is  the star at  the  centre 
of  the Solar  System.  It  is  a 
nearly  perfect  sphere  of 
hot plasma,  with 
internal convective  motion  that 
generates  a magnetic  field via 
a dynamo  process.. It  is  by  far 
the  most  important  source 
of energy for life on Earth.  Its 
diameter  is  about  1.39  million 
kilometres
 PLANETS

A planet is an astronomical
body orbiting a star or stellar
remnant that is massive
enough to be rounded by its
own gravity, is not massive
enough to
cause thermonuclear fusion,
and has cleared its
neighbouring
region of planetesimals.
8 PLANETS

PLANETS
 SATELLITES
A natural  satellite or moon is,  in  the 
most  common  usage,  an astronomical 
body that orbits a planet or minor 
planet (or  sometimes  another small 
Solar System body).
In  the Solar  System there  are  six 
planetary satellite  systems containing 
175  known  natural  satellites. 
Four IAU-listed dwarf  planets are  also 
known  to  have  natural 
satellites: Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, 
and Eris. As of October 2016, there are 
over 300 minor planets known to have 
moons
 EARTH
Earth is the planet we live on. It 
is the third planet from the sun. 
It  is  the  only  planet  known  to 
have life on it. Lots of scientists 
think  the  earth formed  around 
4.5  billion  years  ago.   It  is  one 
of  four rocky  planets on  the 
inside of the Solar System. The 
other  three 
are Mercury, Venus and Mars.
 DWARF PLANET
A dwarf planet is a planetary-mass 
object that  is  neither  a planet nor 
a natural  satellite.  That  is,  it  is  in 
direct  orbit  of  a  star,  and  is 
massive  enough  for  its  gravity  to 
compress  it  into  a hydrostatically 
equilibrious shape  (usually 
a spheroid),  but  has  not cleared 
the  neighbourhood of  other 
material around its orbit.
 ASTEROID
Asteroids are minor planets, especially those
of the inner Solar System. The larger ones
have also been called planetoids. These
terms have historically been applied to any
astronomical object orbiting the Sun that
did not show the disc of a planet and was
not observed to have the characteristics of
an active comet. As minor planets in the
outer Solar System were discovered and
found to have volatile-based surfaces that
resemble those of comets, they were often
distinguished from asteroids of the asteroid
belt.
 COMET
A comet is an icy small Solar
System body that, when passing
close to the Sun, warms and
begins to release gases, a process
called outgassing. This produces
a visible atmosphere or coma,
and sometimes also a tail. These
phenomena are due to the
effects of solar radiation and
the solar wind acting upon the
nucleus of the comet.
 INTERPLANETARY MEDIUM
The  interplanetary  medium  includes 
interplanetary dust, cosmic  rays and  hot plasma from 
the solar  wind.  The  temperature  of  the  interplanetary 
medium  varies. For dust particles within the asteroid belt, 
typical temperatures range from 200 K (−73 °C) at 2.2 AU 
down  to  165 K  (−108 °C)  at  3.2 AU.   The  density  of  the 
interplanetary  medium  is  very  low,  about  5  particles  per 
cubic centimetre in the vicinity of the Earth