Solar System

The solar system consists of the Sun and the other celestial objects  gravitationally bound to it: the eight planets, their 165 known moons, three currently identified dwarf planets (Ceres, Eris and Pluto) and their four known moons, and billions of small bodies. This last category includes asteroids, Kuiper belt objects, comets, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust.

In board terms, the charred regions of the Solar System consist of the Sun, four terrestrial inner planets, an asteroids belt composed of small rocky bodies, four gas giant outer planets, and a second belt, called the Kuiper belt, composed by icy objects. Beyond the Kuiper belt lies the scattered disc, the helipause, and ultimately the hypothetical Oort cloud.

In order of their distances from the Sun, the planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Six of the eight planets are in turn orbited by natural satellites, usually termed "moons" after Earth's Moon, and each of the outer planets is encircled by planetary rings of dust and other particles. All the planets except Earth are named after gods and goddess from Greece Roman mythology. The three dwarf planets are Pluto, the largest known Kuiper bet object; Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt; and Eris, which lies in the scattered disc.