Planets*

The solar system is made up of planets, satellites, moons, comets, asteroids, and the sun.

There are nine larger planets that orbit the sun.

They are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

The sun is not a planet; it is a small star.

The sun belongs to the huge group of stars called the Milky Way.

The Earth takes 364 1/4 days to make one complete circle around the sun.

Mercury only takes 88 days since it is closer to the sun.

Pluto is the farthest from the sun and takes 248 earth years to orbit it.