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Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and has an iron oxide surface that gives it a reddish appearance. Pluto was originally the ninth planet but is now classified as a dwarf planet. Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun, is 17 times Earth's mass, and orbits the Sun at an average distance of 30.1 AU.

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9 Planets

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and has an iron oxide surface that gives it a reddish appearance. Pluto was originally the ninth planet but is now classified as a dwarf planet. Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun, is 17 times Earth's mass, and orbits the Sun at an average distance of 30.1 AU.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second smallest planet in the Solar System.
Named after the Roman god of war, it is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide
prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance.

Pluto

Pluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-most-massive known dwarf planet in the
Solar System (after Eris) and the tenth-most-massive body observed directly orbiting the Sun.[h]
Originally classified as the ninth planet from the Sun, Pluto was recategorized as a dwarf planet
and plutoid owing to the discovery that it is only one of several large bodies within the Kuiper
belt.
Neptune

Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest
planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is
somewhat more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 times the mass of Earth but not
as dense.[12] On average, Neptune orbits the Sun at a distance of 30.1 AU, approximately 30
times the Earth–Sun distance. Named for the Roman god of the sea, its astronomical symbol is
♆, a stylised version of the god Neptune's trident.

Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the
Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets. It is sometimes
referred to as the world, the Blue Planet, or by its Latin name, Terra.
Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after
Jupiter. Named after the Roman god Saturn, its astronomical symbol (♄) represents the god's
sickle. Saturn is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth. While only
one-eighth the average density of Earth, with its larger volume Saturn is just over 95 times more
massive than Earth.

Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet in the Solar System. It is a gas
giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the
other planets in the Solar System combined
Mercury

Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System. It is also the smallest, and its orbit is the
most eccentric (that is, the least perfectly circular) of the eight planets. It orbits the Sun once in
about 88 Earth days, completing three rotations about its axis for every two orbits. The planet is
named after the Roman god Mercury, the messenger to the gods.

Uranus

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-
largest planetary mass in the Solar System. Uranus is similar in composition to Neptune, and
both are of different chemical composition than the larger gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. For this
reason, astronomers sometimes place them in a separate category called "ice giants".
Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is
named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural
object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows.
[13]
Because Venus is an inferior planet from Earth, it never appears to venture far from the Sun:
its elongation reaches a maximum of 47.8°. Venus reaches its maximum brightness shortly
before sunrise or shortly after sunset, for which reason it has been referred to by ancient
cultures as the Morning Star or Evening Star.

Haumea

Haumea's mass is about one-third that of Pluto, and 1/1400 that of Earth.
Although its shape has not been directly observed, calculations from its light
curve indicate that it is a triaxial ellipsoid, with its major axis twice as long as
its minor. Its gravity is thought to be sufficient for it to have relaxed into
hydrostatic equilibrium, making it a dwarf planet.
CERES

Ceres was the first asteroid to be discovered (by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo on
1 January 1801). It was originally considered a planet, but was reclassified as
an asteroid in the 1850s after many other objects in similar orbits were
discovered.

ERIS

Erris is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) and a member of a high-eccentricity


population known as the scattered disk. It has one known moon, Dysnomia. As
of February 2016, its distance from the Sun was 96.3 astronomical units
(1.441×1010 km; 8.95×109 mi),[13] roughly three times that of Pluto. With the
exception of some long-period comets, Eris and Dysnomia are currently the
second-most-distant known natural objects in the Solar System,[18][g] the
farthest object being V774104 discovered in November 2015 at 103 AU
SEDNA

Sedna has an exceptionally long and elongated orbit, taking approximately


11,400 years to complete and a distant point of closest approach to the Sun at
76 AU. These facts have led to much speculation about its origin. The Minor
Planet Center currently places Sedna in the scattered disc, a group of objects
sent into highly elongated orbits by the gravitational influence of Neptune.

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