SOLAR SYSTEM

SOLAR SYSTEM

•      The solar system comprises of the sun and eight planets revolving round the sun, many satellites revolving around their respective planets, thousands of comets and billions of meteoroids.


•      Planets (in the increasing order of their distance from the Sun)

1.       Mercury
2.      Venus
3.      Earth
4.      Mars
5.      Jupiter

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ORIGIN OF THE EARTH

Earth formed from a small part of the sun, it originated as a hot gaseous mass, which on cooling, turned first into a liquid and then into solid mass.

Gaseous Hypothesis Theory – Kant

Nebural Hypothesis Theory – Laplace

Tidal Hypothesis Theory – Jeans and Jeffreys

•      The denser matter forms the central part of the earth and the