Solar System (imp points)

Solar System Currently Whats IN news Indian scientist examines possibility of life on planets other than Earth.. A recent article by Ashwini Kumar Lal, from the ministry of statistics and programme implementation, government of India, has examined the possibility of life on planets and satellites within our solar system and beyond.Read More--http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_indian-scientist-examines-possibility-of-life-on-planets-other-than-earth_1327530

Planets	Have no light of there own, all of tem EXCEPT Venus n Uranus rotate upon their axis from west to east
Satellites	earth has one(moon) Jupiter has more than 60 Mercury n Venus Have none
Asteroids n Planetoids	Term---whole series of very small planets or fragments of planets revolving around the sun between Jupiter n Mars.
Centre of Solar System	The SUN (this theory was given by Copernicus called heliocentric view.) Prior to earth was considered as the centre(this theory by Ptolemy)
Sun	Average dist. Frm earth—150,000,000kms Pluto Farthest
Earth	third planet after Mercury n Venus(called inferior planets) age—4.6 billion Shape-Oblate spheroid or a geoid Rotation –Spinning on polar axis every 23 hr 56 min n 9.54 secs
Do u Know	Mercury,Venus,earth,Mars---inner planets Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus,Neptune n Plut----outer planets Venus brightest planet. Mercury--- smallest Jupiter—largest Earth—living or blue planet Mars-red planet Pluto’s orbit elliptical intersects orbit of Neptune