Florent Lefortier answered
There are eight planets in the solar system.
What Is The Solar System?
The term "solar system" refers to the sun and the collection of celestial bodies that rotate around it. This includes the planets, their moons, the asteroid belt, the comet and the Kuiper belt.
These are all held together and bound to the sun by the force of gravitation.
What About Pluto?
Previously, our solar system consisted of nine official planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
Recently, however, scientists began wondering whether Pluto should really be considered a planet, as a celestial body bigger than Pluto had been discovered, and this wasn't classed as a planet.
What Is The Solar System?
The term "solar system" refers to the sun and the collection of celestial bodies that rotate around it. This includes the planets, their moons, the asteroid belt, the comet and the Kuiper belt.
These are all held together and bound to the sun by the force of gravitation.
What About Pluto?
Previously, our solar system consisted of nine official planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
Recently, however, scientists began wondering whether Pluto should really be considered a planet, as a celestial body bigger than Pluto had been discovered, and this wasn't classed as a planet.
The debate went on for a while, and ultimately it was decided that Pluto should not be classed as a planet any more - so it's now considered a dwarf planet. Consequently, there are now only eight planets in the solar system.
