10 Interesting Fact About The Solar System: Surprising Facts About Our Planetary Neighbors

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• Solar system consists of 8 planets, 170+ planetoid objects, and hundreds of thousands of other objects that orbit the sun.
• The sun is the largest object in the solar system, containing more than 99.8 percent of the total mass of the solar system.
• The farthest planet from the sun is Neptune, which is about 4.5 billion kilometers from the sun.
• The closest planet from the sun is Mercury, which is about 57.9 million kilometers from the sun.
• The largest planet in the solar system is Jupiter, which has a diameter of around 142,984 kilometers.
• The smallest planet in the solar system is Pluto, which has a diameter of about 2370 kilometers.
• The largest month in the solar system is the Moon Ganymede in Jupiter, which has a diameter of around 5,268 kilometers.
• The smallest month in the solar system is the Deimos Month on Mars, which has a diameter of about 15 kilometers.
• Planet which has a densized atmosphere is found in Venus, which has an atmospheric pressure of about 92 times higher than the atmospheric pressure on earth.
• Solar system is said to be around 4.6 billion years old.