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These are former Kuiper belt and scattered disc objects that were gravitationally perturbed closer to the Sun by the outer planets, and are expected to become comets or get ejected out of the Solar System. Two NASA spacecraft launched in 1977 have crossed the termination shock: Voyager 1 in 2004 and Voyager 2 in 2007.

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Most scattered disc objects (SDOs) have perihelia within the Kuiper belt but aphelia far beyond it (some more than 150AU from the Sun). The Sun's four largest orbiting bodies, the giant planets, account for 99% of the remaining mass, with Jupiter and Saturn together comprising more than 90%. Kepler's laws only account for the influence of the Sun's gravity upon an orbiting body, not the gravitational pulls of different bodies upon each other. When the lovely people at Find Me a Gift approached me to review one of their products, as soon as I saw ‘My Very Own Solar System’ I knew that was for us. The 85cm diameter motorised solar system model has eight colour planets that rotate on three independent orbits.To a good first approximation, Kepler's laws of planetary motion describe the orbits of objects around the Sun. A Tale of 3 Dwarf Planets: Ices and Organics on Sedna, Gonggong, and Quaoar from JWST Spectroscopy". from the Sun [90]), distinguished by its extensive ring system, has several similarities to Jupiter, such as its atmospheric composition and magnetosphere.

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Comparison with other star systems Habitable zones of TRAPPIST-1 and the Solar System; here, the TRAPPIST-1 system is enlarged 25 times.

When a comet enters the inner Solar System, its proximity to the Sun causes its icy surface to sublimate and ionise, creating a coma: a long tail of gas and dust often visible to the naked eye. Asteroids except for the largest, Ceres, are classified as small Solar System bodies [d] and are composed mainly of carbonaceous, refractory rocky and metallic minerals, with some ice.

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Most of the larger moons orbit their planets in prograde direction, matching the planetary rotation; Neptune's moon Triton is the largest to orbit in the opposite, retrograde manner. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all individual astronomical objects but uses mixed "Solar System" and "solar system" structures in their naming guidelines document Archived 25 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine.It appears to consist overwhelmingly of many thousands of small worlds—the largest having a diameter only a fifth that of Earth and a mass far smaller than that of the Moon—composed mainly of rock and ice.

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Two of these, Titan and Enceladus, show signs of geological activity; [136] they, as well as five other Saturnian moons ( Iapetus, Rhea, Dione, Tethys, and Mimas), are large enough to be round.Some authors today have begun to consider Pallas and Vesta as planets again, along with Ceres, under geophysical definitions of the term. The Sun is not massive enough to commence the fusion of heavier elements, and nuclear reactions in the core will dwindle. The giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) formed further out, beyond the frost line, the point between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where material is cool enough for volatile icy compounds to remain solid. Despite discoveries such as Sedna, the region between the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud, an area tens of thousands of AU in radius, is still virtually unmapped.

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