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The Solar System by David Bardot

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The solar system is the sun and everything that orbits it.

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This includes the nine planets and their moons, asteroids and comets.

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All are in orbit around the sun by the gravity of it.

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Our solar system has eight planets that orbit our sun.

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In order of distance from the sun they are

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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

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All the planets except Earth were named in honor of the Greek and Roman gods.

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Mercury was named in honor of the Roman Traveller God.

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Venus was named in honor of the Roman Love and Beauty God.

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Mars was the Roman war god, Jupiter was the king of the Roman gods, Saturn was the Roman

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agriculture god, Uranus was named in honor of the Greek sky god and Neptune was the Roman

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god of the sea.