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PLANETS OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM PLANETS: Planets are solid heavenly bodies which revolve around the Sun in a closed elliptical paths.A planet is made of rock and metal. Planets produce no light of it's own.They shine because they reflect the light of Sun. Since the planets are much nearer than the stars,they appear to be bigger and do not twinkle at night. The planets move around the sun from west to east,except two planets,so the relative position of planets keep changing day by day.The planets are very small when compare to Sun and other stars. There are 8 planets in our solar system. The names of the planets along with their Indian names are given in the order of increasing distances from the sun are as fallows. 1)Mercury( Budha) 2)Venus( Shukra). 3) Earth (Prithvi) 4)Mars(Mangal) 5)Jupiter(Brihaspathi) 6)Saturn(shani) 7)Uranus(Indra) 8)Neptune(Varun).

Briefly about planets MERCURY: Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun in the solar system.It is the smallest planet in the solar system.It is the second dense planet after the Earth.It is the second hottest planet after the Venus. Although Mercury is closest to the Sun than the Venus experiences lesser temperature than the Venus because it has no atmosphere to regulate temperature and results in the most extreme temperature change of all the planets.So it is extremely hot during the day and extremely cold during the night.It has no satellites of it's own and no rings.Is is named after the messenger of the ROMAN GODS.

VENUS: Venus is the second planet from the Sun in the solar system.The Indian name for Venus is Shukra. Venus is the closest planet to Earth.Earth and Venus are called as twin planets due to their similarity in size,density,mass and volume.Venus is reffered to as the "Morning and Evening star ".Venus is the brighest planet in solar system.Venus rotates from east to west as other planets rotates from west to east.Venus has no satellites or rings.Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.

EARTH:It is the third from the sun in the solar system.The Indian name for Earth is Prithvi. It is the only planet on which life is known to exist.Nearly 70% of the Earth surface is covered with water due to which it is also called as BLUE PLANET.The Earth has only one satellite that is THE MOON. MARS: Mars is the 4th planet from the sun.The Indian name for the Mars is Mangal. It appears slightly reddish and,therefore,it is called the RED PLANET. With the exception of Earth,Mar is the most hospitable to life. Mars has two small satellites.The planet is named after the Roman god of war.

JUPITER: The fifth and the largest planet in the solar system is Jupiter.The Indian name for Jupiter is Brihaspati It is so large bout 1300 earths an be placed inside this giant planet.The mass of it is about 318 times that of our Earth.Jupiter has large number of own satellites and it has a thin ring system.

SATURN: It is the second largest planet in the solar system.The Indian name for Saturn is Shani. Saturn is in yellowish color and it has beautiful rings around it that are made up of ice and dust.One interesting thing about Saturn is the least dense among all the planets.Its density is less than that of water.Jupiter has also large number of satellites.It is named after the king of the gods in Roman mythology.

URANUS:The seventh planet from the sun in the solar system is Saturn.The Indian name for Uranus is INDRA.Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system.it is the second least dense planet in the solar system.Uranus has 27 own satellites and it has rings.It is the only planet named after the Greek mythology.it also rotates from west to east as like Venus

NEPTUNE: It is the 8th planet from the sun the solar system.The Indian name for Neptune is VARUN .As this planet is farthest from the Sun ,cold winds blow at very high speeds.Neptune has 13 satellites.

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