The Solar System

In the Solar System we include all those bodies dependent on the sun

which circulate round it at various distances, deriving their light and

heat from the sun--the planets and their moons, certain comets and a

multitude of meteors: in other words, all bodies whose movements in

space are determined by the gravitational pull of the sun.

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