Fun Facts about Our Solar System

While we all remember some facts about the solar system - for example, there were night planets, but now are down to eight,  - there are many little things that many people do not know. So, here we go:

• Saturn Isn't The Only Planet With Rings
• Most of us learned that Saturn had rings made up of small rocks, ice, and other particles. Actua;;y, there are several other planets have rings around them! Such as all of the larger planets, and Uranus, but these are all too difficult to see due to their distance to earth.

• The Solar System’s Mass Is 99% Sun
• The sun makes up over ninety-nine percent of all of the mass in our entire solar system. Jupiter and some of the other large planets make up most of the rest, and Earth barely even registers in the equation.

• Seasons On Uranus Last For Twenty Years
• Uranus has an orbital tilt of eighty-two degrees, which means that it is practically on its side. The effect of this is that a season on Uranus lasts about twenty earth years, and causes all sorts of odd weather.

• One Day On Mercury Equals 58 Earth-Days
• Due to Mercury’s orbit around the sun, a year on that planet is the equivalent of around eighty-eight Earth days—which means that on Mercury, there are less than two days in a year. But that’s not all: due to the planet’s strange orbit, the sun actually seems to travel backwards and forwards in the sky.

• Venus Is The Hottest Planet
• Venus, on the other hand, has a notoriously thick atmosphere that traps the heat created by the sun. Interestingly, Venus is also quite the black sheep of the planet world, and spins in the opposite direction.

• There Are Five Dwarf Planets In Our Solar System
• There are actually five dwarf planets in our solar system; one of them is Pluto which has been reclassified few years ago. The other four are Ceres, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake.

• Jupiter Sucks Up Space Garbage
• Jupiter’s huge size and gravitational pull act as a protective barrier that shields the earth from space debris, pulling dangerous objects into its own orbit before they can reach us.