THE SOLAR

SYSTEM
Our Solar System & its components
TOPICS TO BE COVERED
A. How solar system was created?
B. How solar system works?
C. Components of our solar system.
i. The Sun
ii. Planets
iii. Belts
iv. Space rocks
v. Oort cloud
D. How solar system ends?
A. HOW IS OUR SOLAR
SYSTEM CREATED?
 Our solar system formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a dense cloud of interstellar gas and
dust.
 The cloud collapsed, possibly due to the shockwave of a nearby exploding star, called a
supernova.
 When this dust cloud collapsed, it formed a solar nebula – a spinning, swirling disk of
material.
 At the center, gravity pulled more and more material in.
 Eventually, the pressure in the core was so great that hydrogen atoms began to combine and
form helium, releasing a tremendous amount of energy.
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 With that, our Sun was born, and it eventually amassed more than 99% of the available matter.
 Matter farther out in the disk was also clumping together. These clumps smashed into one
another, forming larger and larger objects.
 Some of them grew big enough for their gravity to shape them into spheres, becoming planets,
dwarf planets, and large moons.
 In other cases, planets did not form: the asteroid belt is made of bits and pieces of the early
solar system that could never quite come together into a planet. Other smaller leftover pieces
became asteroids, comets, meteoroids, and small, irregular moons.
B. HOW THE SOLAR SYSTEM
WORKS?
 Our solar system is primarily supported by our Sun’s gravitational field binding substances
that orbits the Sun.
 Then secondly moons of planets are bounded by the gravitational fields of their planets.
C. COMPONENTS OF OUR
SOLAR SYSTEM
 Solar system contains all things that is bounded by the Sun including the Sun.
 The Sun
 Planets
 Belts
 Space rocks
 Oort cloud

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I. THE SUN
 The Sun is a star that is primarily composed of
Hydrogen and helium.
 It is the source of heat and light for planets.

 It is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf

planets, tens of thousands of asteroids, and
perhaps three trillion comets and icy bodies.
II. PLANETS

Planets

Terrestrial Jovian Dwarf

Planets Planets planets
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Terrestrial planets Jovian planets Dwarf planets
Relatively smaller in size Relatively larger in size Smallest in comparison with others
Have solid surface Don’t have solid surface Have solid surface
Relatively nearer to Sun Relatively further from Sun Are in Asteroid and Kuiper belt.
Planets before the asteroid belt Planets after the asteroid belt Except for Ceres, which lies in the main
asteroid belt, these small worlds are in the
Kuiper Belt.
Include planets Include planets Include planets
Mercury( 0 moons) Jupiter( 79 moons) Ceres
Venus ( 0 moons) Saturn( 82moons) Pluto No moon at all, in fact
Earth ( 1 moon) Uranus( 27 moons) Makemake they are saved from
Mars ( 2 moons) Neptune( 14 moons) Haumea being named asteroids.
Eris.
III. BELTS

Asteroid • The asteroid belt is a region of space between the orbits of Mars and
Jupiter.
• Most of the asteroids in our Solar System are found orbiting the Sun are

belt here.
• The asteroid belt probably contains millions of asteroids.

• The Kuiper Belt is a region of space. The known icy worlds and comets in

Kuiper belt both regions are much smaller than Earth's Moon.
• There may be hundreds of thousands of icy bodies larger than 100 km (62
miles) and an estimated trillion or more comets within the Kuiper Belt.
IV. SPACE ROCKS
 Beside other components of our solar system like the planets moons and the Sun, there are
other things. These things are very small earth’s rock like structure. They are classified in to:
1. Asteroids
2. Comets
3. Meteoroids
4. Meteors
5. Meteorites
 1. ASTEROIDS
 An asteroid is a small rocky body orbiting the sun.
Large numbers of these, ranging enormously in amount,
are found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter,
though some have more eccentric orbits.
 They probably consist of clay and silicate rocks and are
dark in appearance. They are among the most ancient
objects in the solar system.
 The S-types ("stony") are made up of silicate materials
and nickel-iron.
 The M-types are metallic (nickel-iron).
2. COMETS
 Comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock,
and dust that orbit the Sun.
 When frozen, they are the size of a small town.
 When a comet's orbit brings it close to the Sun, it
heats up and spews dust and gases into a giant
glowing head larger than most planets.
 These bodies are made of dust, rocks, organic
compounds, and ice, and have three parts: nucleus,
coma, and tail
 Nucleus: is the middle part where frozen gases,
rock, and dust are concentrated.
 Coma is when the nucleus is covered with light.
 Tail: the tail of the coma.
3. METEOROIDS
 Meteoroids are astronomical objects formed when asteroids collide
with one another and small chunk of them are shot into the space by
gravity and momentum.
 There size is not more than three feet.
 After getting into the gravitational field, they burn and change to
dust.
4. METEORS
 Meteoroids are called meteors when they get into the atmosphere of the earth.
 Everyday 48 ton of meteors fall to earth.
 We can’t notice this because they are too small to be seen with human eye and their angle of
falling makes them unable to be seen.
5. METEORITES
 When meteors get into the earth’s atmosphere, they break to tiny dust particles.
 But when meteors don’t break to pieces, they change their name to meteorites.
V. OORT CLOUD
The Oort Cloud is the most distant region of our solar system. Even the nearest objects in the Oort Cloud
are thought to be many times farther from the Sun than the outer reaches of the .

Unlike the orbits of the planets and the Kuiper Belt, which lie mostly in the same flat disk around the Sun,
the Oort Cloud is believed to be a giant spherical shell surrounding the rest of the solar system.

It is like a big, thick-walled bubble made of icy pieces of space debris the sizes of mountains and
sometimes larger. The Oort Cloud might contain billions, or even trillions, of objects.

Because the orbits of long-period comets are so extremely long, scientists suspect that the Oort Cloud is the
source of most of those comets.
D. HOW DOES
THE SOLAR
SYSTEM END?
 The Sun will evolve into a red giant,
swallow the inner planets, and become
a white dwarf.
 In about five billion years, the Sun's
core will run out of hydrogen, the fuel
of its fusion reactor.
 The Sun will continue to fuse
hydrogen in an expanding shell, and
this will puff the Sunup into a red
giant.
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