NOUN
- the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field
How To Use solar system In A Sentence
- The terrestrial planets in our solar system all have very specific spectroscopic fingerprints that tell us quite a bit about their atmospheres.
- The discovery of a small planetoid in the Kuiper belt, the distant disk of debris whose chunks eventually formed the solar system, make Pluto's chances of holding onto its status of bona fide planet weaker.
- To me the shape is more like an orrery, a clockwork model of the solar system.
- Pluto, which has the greatest orbital eccentricity of any of the Solar System planets, was during those years at perihelion and actually closer than Neptune to the Sun.
- The Moon could also become the principal astronomical observation platform in the solar system.
- Pluto is the farthest planet in the solar system.
- Asteroid-sourced raw materials will enable and catalyze the development of an Earth-Moon space economy and humankind's expansion into the solar system.
- The blue glow dulled to blue-black, pulsing like a bruise, an open sore on the solar system.
- After all, planetesimal sized portions of the Solar System cannot be considered to be orbiting the Earth, except in the obvious case of the Moon.
- The picture shows six of the nine planets in the solar system.