Solar System

Our Solar System is the Sun and everything that revolves around it. It includes all the planets and their moons, and space objects such as comets, meteoroids and asteroids. There are also two vast bands of drifting rocks called Asteroid Belt and Kuiper Belt.

Currently, there are nine well-known planets in our Solar system. There are the Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. You can remember the position of the nine planets by remembering the following phase:

My Very Educated Mother Just Shown Us Nine Planet.

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are discovered by ancient astronomers. They named them after the Roman deities:

Mercury -  Messenger of the gods

Venus - God of love and beauty

Mars - God of war

Jupiter - King of the gods

Saturn -  Father of Jupiter and god of agriculture.

With the invention of the telescope, more planets have been discovered:

Uranus - Discovered in 1781

Neptune - Discovered in 1846

Pluto - Discovered in 1930

We have extracted the relevant information and photographs from the Nasa's Web site and have simplified it for the beginners and kids.