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Title: Solar System
Description: The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by gravity. These objects are the eight planets and their 166 known moons; three dwarf planets (Ceres, Pluto, and Eris) and their four known moons; and billions of small bodies, including asteroids, Kuiper belt objects, comets, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust.

In broad terms, the charted regions of the Solar System consist of the Sun, four terrestrial inner planets, an asteroid belt composed of small rocky bodies, four gas giant outer planets, and a second belt, the Kuiper belt, composed of icy objects. Beyond the Kuiper belt is the scattered disc, the heliopause, and ultimately the hypothetical Oort cloud.

In order of their distances from the Sun, the terrestrial planets are:

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

The outer gas giants (or jovians) are:

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune
Owner: Garrett Grainger
Tags: solar, solar system, moon