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Planet - Wikipedia A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself [1]
About the Planets - Science@NASA Our solar system has eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune There are five officially recognized dwarf planets in our solar system: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris What is a planet? The word goes back to the ancient Greek word planēt, and it means "wanderer "
The Nine Planets of The Solar System | Eight Planets Without Pluto The Nine Planets is an encyclopedic overview with facts and information about mythology and current scientific knowledge of the planets, moons, and other objects in our solar system and beyond The smallest and fastest planet, Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and whips around it every 88 Earth days
Planet | Definition, Characteristics, Facts | Britannica Planet, broadly, any relatively large natural body that revolves in an orbit around the Sun or around some other star and that is not radiating energy from internal nuclear fusion reactions There are eight planets orbiting the Sun in the solar system
What Is a Planet? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids What Is a Planet? The Short Answer: A planet must do three things: it must orbit a star, it must be big enough to have enough gravity to force a spherical shape, and it must be big enough that its gravity cleared away any objects of a similar size near its orbit
Planets - NASA Using this new definition, there are eight planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune Pluto was re-classified as a “minor planet” Nevertheless, for historical reasons, Pluto is still found with the 8 planets on the JPL Planetary Ephemeris
What Is a Planet? - timeanddate. com According to the IAU, a planet is a celestial body that: has cleared away other objects that lie in or near its orbit There are eight planets in the solar system A dwarf planet is a celestial body that: is not a moon Dwarf planets include Ceres, Pluto, and Eris