Planet

"You heard about Pluto? That's messed up, right?"

- Burton Guster

A planet is a celestial body made up of either matter or gas in orbit around a star. In the known solar system (or Sol system), there are eight such bodies classified as planets in orbit around a single white star. Ancient astrologers once believed that the star, or sun orbited the planet Earth, but as scientific knowledge evolved, it was proven to be the other way around. Many planets have their own natural satellites, or moons in orbit around them. Earth, being the pithy little planet that it is has only one moon, while that funky ringed gigantoid known as Saturn has friggin' sixty-two moons. We suck.

Solar system planets

 * Mercury
 * Venus
 * Earth
 * Mars


 * Jupiter
 * Saturn
 * Neptune
 * Uranus