Characteristics of the Solar System
3. Orbits of moons around planets are in the planet’s equatorial plane.
- Exception: Earth’s moon rotates in plane of the solar system
- One of Neptune’s moons orbits retrograde.
4. Two (three?) types of planets…
- Small rocky planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars)
- Large gaseous planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)
- Tiny icy planets? (Pluto?)
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