Solar System (disambiguation)

Last updated March 24, 2023

The Solar System comprises the Sun and the objects that orbit it, including the satellites of those objects.

Solar System may also refer to:

a photovoltaic system, alternately called a "solar system"
a planetary system, sometimes referred to as a "solar system"
The Solar System (film), a 2017 Peruvian-Spanish comedy-drama film
Solar System (song), a song by the Beach Boys
"II. Solar System", a song by the Microphones from Mount Eerie

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The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant circumstellar disc in the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy small solar system bodies, which are a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects. The scattered-disc objects (SDOs) have orbital eccentricities ranging as high as 0.8, inclinations as high as 40°, and perihelia greater than 30 astronomical units (4.5×10⁹ km; 2.8×10⁹ mi). These extreme orbits are thought to be the result of gravitational "scattering" by the gas giants, and the objects continue to be subject to perturbation by the planet Neptune.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined in August 2006 that, in the Solar System, a planet is a celestial body that:

is in orbit around the Sun,
has sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium, and
has "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit.

A small Solar System body (SSSB) is an object in the Solar System that is neither a planet, a dwarf planet, nor a natural satellite. The term was first defined in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as follows: "All other objects, except satellites, orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as 'Small Solar System Bodies' ".

Thing or The Thing may refer to:

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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