Mohammed Zaid Agha, Class III, Our Lady of Fatima Hr. Sec. School

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  The Solar System is the name given to our sun, planets, moons, comets, meteors and millions of asteroids. Everything else you can see in the sky is outside the Solar System and far, far away. Every single star is a sun, and each may have its own family of planets and moons. There are eight planets in the Solar System- from boiling Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, to the stormy Neptune - the most faraway world. All the planets have at least one moon, except Mercury and Venus which have none. If you throw a ball into the air, it will again come down. Heard it too many times? The invisible force that pulls things down to Earth is called gravity. The Earth's gravity holds us down on the ground. The Sun's gravity is strong enough to hold all its planets in their orbits. Imagine? Unbelievable but . . . true! No matter how still you try to be, you are always moving. This is because the Earth and all the other planets- are moving. They are flying through space around the sun in looping paths called ‘orbits’.

As you know that there are eight planets, so here are a few details about our planets in our Solar System.

Mercury - The closest planet to the Sun. (Roman messenger of the gods)
Venus - The second and the hottest planet in the Solar System. (Roman goddess of love)
Earth - Our sweet home, the third and the only discovered planet with life.
Mars - It is the red planet. (Roman god of war)
Jupiter - The biggest planet in our Solar System. (Roman king of the gods)
Saturn - It is the sixth & the ringed planet.(Roman god of agriculture &father of Jupiter)
Uranus - The coldest and the seventh planet to the Sun. (Roman god of the sky)
Neptune - The stormiest and blue planet.(Roman god of the sea)

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