Exploring Our Solar System

By Mahesh Dutt Sharma

One light year is equivalent to 10,000 billion miles. Our solar system is shifting towards Hercules constellation of stars at a speed of 19.3 kilometers per second. The sky of the earth is blue; the sky of Mars is pinkish-orange because of the dust present in the atmosphere. For thousands of years man had no knowledge about the solar system. He had believed that earth alone was the centre point of the universe.
Nicolas Copernicus, Galileo Galilee, John’s Kepler and Isaac Newton well known astronomers by studying about the speed and movements of the planets have today brought to our knowledge that sun is the centre point of the solar system. Among the planets of the solar system only Venus and mercury are not the planets who have their own moons, rather earths one satellite is moon, mars has 2 moons, Jupiter has 63 moons, Saturn has 60, Uranus has 27 and Neptune has 13 moons. The energy that reaches from the sun to the earth, reaches at an electric charge of 1.37 kilowatt electricity per meter.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mahesh Dutt Sharma
• Release date: Apr 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301447459

Mahesh Dutt Sharma

Mahesh Sharma, a prestigious author and journalist, has written more than 1550 Hindi and English books. His book, "Mahatma Gandhi," won the M.P. Govt. Gandhi Darshan National Award in 2010. He also won Purvottar Hindi Academy, Meghalaya, Shilong Award twice, Natraj Author Award etc.. He is a freelance writer and writing is his passion.

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Exploring Our Solar System

By Mahesh Sharma

Published by Mahesh Dutt Sharma

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Preface

Our Solar System constitutes of Sun in the centre, and then are the nine planets, more than 60 moons are there, millions of rocky meteors, and billions of frozen comets. Every planet of the solar system lying in its orbit revolves round the Sun. A tip of Sun’s rays even can create disaster to an extent of 160 kilometer stretch. Few mountains found on the Earth, actually are the pieces of the planet Mars. One light year is equivalent to 10,000 billion kilometers. Our solar system is shifting towards Hercules constellation of stars at a speed of 19.3 kilometers per second. The sky of the earth is blue; the sky of Mars is pinkish-orange because of the dust present in the atmosphere. For thousands of years man had no knowledge about the solar system. He had believed that earth alone was the centre point of the universe.

Nicolas Copernicus, Galileo Galilee, Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton well known astronomers by studying about the speed and movements of the planets have today brought to our knowledge that Sun is the centre point of the solar system. Among the planets of the solar system only Venus and mercury are not the planets who have their own moons, rather earths one satellite is moon, Mars has 2 moons, Jupiter has 63 moons, Saturn has 60, Uranus has 27 and Neptune has 13 moons. The energy that reaches from the Sun to the earth, reaches at an electric charge of 1.37 kilowatt electricity per meter.

—Author

Table of Contents

1. Our Solar System

2. Sun: The King of the Solar System

3. Planet Mercury

4. Planet Venus

5. The Earth

6. Planet Mars

7. Planet Jupiter

8. Planet Saturn

9. The Uranus

10. Neptune

11. Pluto the Dwarf Planet

12. Our Moon

13. Other Small Planets

14. The Comets

15. The Meteors

16. New Discoveries in the Space

17. Solar System : Interesting Facts

1. Our Solar System

Our Solar System is like an umbrella for the entire universe. Sun is the chief authority in the Solar System, who is the major source of living for the living beings on the earth.

Solar system consists of one centre Star Sun, nine planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto). More than 169 moon, uncountable stars and various other small bodies such as comets, centaurs and interplanetary dust.

Structure

Our some planets are gaseous and some are terrestrial planets.

Terrestrial Planets: The four smaller inner planets namely Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are the terrestrial Planets. These terrestrial planets are very dense and are largely composed of rocks, refractory minerals like silicates which form their crusts and mantels, and metals such as iron and nickel which form their cores. Terrestrial planets have few or no moons and no ring systems. Hence the movement of these planets is very slow.

Gaseous Planets: The four outer planets that are gas giants are sometimes also known as Jovian Planets. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are the gaseous planets. These planets have ring system and so do they even have several