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Colonization of the outer Solar System — Space colonization Solar System Inner Mercury Venus Earth Moon Lagrange points Mars Phobos Deimos Asteroids Ceres Outer Jupiter Io … Wikipedia
Solar System — This article is about the Sun and its planetary system. For other systems, see planetary system and star system. For a list of physical and orbital statistics for the Solar System s largest bodies, see List of gravitationally rounded objects of… … Wikipedia
solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it. [1695 1705] * * * The Sun, its planets, and the small bodies (see asteroid, Centaur object, comet, Kuiper belt, meteorite, and Oort cloud) interplanetary dust and gas… … Universalium
Solar System in fiction — The Solar System and its various bodies (planets, asteroids, moons, etc.) were the earliest objects to be treated as fictional locations in works of science fiction. Among these, imaginary voyages to and explorations of Earth s Moon are found in… … Wikipedia
solar system — solar ,system noun count usually singular * a star and the planets that go around it, especially the Sun and the group of planets that includes the Earth: the outer limits of our solar system the search for planets in other solar systems … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
inner Solar System — noun The area of the Solar System that comprises certain objects that are relatively close to the Sun, including Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, while not including the other planets. Ant: outer Solar System … Wiktionary
solar system */ — UK / US noun [countable, usually singular] Word forms solar system : singular solar system plural solar systems astronomy a star and the planets that go round it, especially the Sun and the group of planets that includes the Earth the outer… … English dictionary
Formation and evolution of the Solar System — Artist s conception of a protoplanetary disk The formation and evolution of the Solar System is estimated to have begun 4.568 billion years ago with the gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular cloud … Wikipedia
List of Solar System objects by size — Objects in the Solar System By orbit By size By discovery date … Wikipedia
Discovery and exploration of the Solar System — The Sun and planets of the Solar System. (Pluto is now classed as a dwarf planet, and is not shown). The relative sizes of objects are drawn to scale; the distances between them are not. For many thousands of years,[clarification needed] … Wikipedia
