Labels:text | screenshot OCR: MAP THE SOLAR SYSTEM THE SOLAR SYSTEM consists of the contains 99.86 percent of the System's Sun and various celestial objects mass. The planet Jupiter accounts for held by the Sun's gravitational field. most of the remainder. The orbits of the These objects include the planets and planets cover a volume of space about 1? their moons, interplanetary gas and 80 astronomical units (AU) wide; the dust, and vast numbers of asteroids, orbits of the comets make the whole IN comets, and meteoroids. The Sun system around 200,000 AU wide. Neptune SOLAR-SYSTEM GALLERY Jupiter Uranus PLANETARY ORBITS The planetary orbits form a Saturn Pluto disk around the Sun, because most of them lie within 4º of the The Sun ecliptic (the plane of Earth's orbit). Mercury's orbit, however, is tilted by 7º from the e ...
