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Question
What heavenly bodies are the members of the Solar System?
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Solution
Components of the Solar System: Our Solar System. consists of the Sun and its nine planets, major and minor, 63 satellites, a large number of very small planets called asteroids, millions of other heavenly bodies called meteors or shooting stars, and the scores of comets. All these components are held together by the Sun’s great gravitational pull.
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