The Solar System is a term given to the area of space which is near to the Sun. The distance of the outer limit of the Solar System is believed to be about 10 billion kilometers from the Sun. It is likely that to represent the solar system correctly, it's limit is closer to 10,000 billion kilometers from the Sun. It is conceivable considering expanding electric wave fronts that the limits of our solar system extend beyond our imagination.

There are four main bodies of matter which make up the classical solar system. They are the Sun, Comets, Astrobodies, and Planets.

Our classical solar system consists of the Sun and nine orbiting planets. They are in order from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Neptune and Pluto change positions. Some of the planets have other bodies called moons which orbit the planet.

Within the Sun-Planet system are other bodies orbiting the Sun and these are Asteroids. But far out, there are bodies of different matter structure orbiting the Sun and these are Comets.

All the Sun's orbiting bodies make up the Solar System. The limits of the orbiting bodies make the limits of the system. Therefore, the maximum distance of the physical solar system has not been truly determined, because some Comets path are hyperbolic and may be very large, it is possible that some Comets have not yet returned, therefore these Comets have not yet been tracked.

Comets: Little is known about Comets. Spectra studies over the years has shown Comments reflect sunlight and radiate energy from their gases. Spectral identification has detected CH, C2, OH, NH, CO, CO2 and N2. Careful studies of the orbits show that comets are now, and always have been, members of the solar system and have evolved with it.

Comets orbit in all directions about the Sun. This is different than the way the planets orbit the Sun, in that, the planets orbit generally in a plane about the Sun. Comets have a greater elliptic elongation in their orbit when compared to planets, and their orbit extends further away from the Sun.

Comets are larger in size than planets but much smaller in mass. Comets have a nucleus with diameters ranging from 5 to 20 thousand kilometers, a coma ranging from 15 to 80 thousand kilometers and a tail extending out several hundred thousand kilometers.

As the Comet gets closer to the Sun it becomes brighter and it shrinks. The tail of the Comet extends out from the Comet away from the Sun. The tail being pushed away from the Comet is said to be caused by the solar wind. The forces involved to move the tail are greatest as the Comet approaches perihelion. The tails of Comets vary widely ranging from none to long straight streamers to fat wide ones. Tails are made up of ionized molecules to space dust.

It is possible, but not immediately probable, Comets or their tails can collide with a planet. A direct collision could be very destructive. The Earth passed through a portion of Halleys comet in 1910 without significant affects. The orbit of Comets have been modified by other planets as the Comet came within the gravitational influence.

Asteroids: or Planetoids as they are some times called are solid objects range from 700 kilometers to 1 kilometers. The shapes of Asteroids varies. The total mass of the Asteroids is about 10^25 grams or about one five hundredth that of the Earth. Their individual masses range from 5 x 10^15 to 6 x 10^23 grams. About 500 have been discovered, however, due to the limits of our measurements, several Asteroids have been discovered more than once.

Asteroids are primarily found in an orbital 2.8 astronomical units or 418 million kilometers from the Sun. This is between Mars and Jupiter. The orbital eccentricities range between .9 and .05 and their inclination ranges from 2 to 35 degrees. The Asteroids are affected by planets gravitational forces but affect the planet very little.

Not all Asteroids orbit in the well known asteroid belt. One of the best studied group is the Trojan Group. It is of great interest because it orbits like Jupiter. Each member has close to the same period and mean distance as Jupiter. They seem to be in a particular situation which relates to a theory that Lagrange proved. Also, some Asteroids like Hidalgo travel as far out as Saturn. Thus, not all Asteroids stay within the 2.8 A.U. asteroid belt area. It is also surmised that the Asteroids may be a source of meteors too.

Asteroids are made of Iron and Nickel and many other materials found on Earth. Besides the 500 Asteroids which have been found there exist the possibility to find a whole lot of smaller ones.

The discovery of Asteroids was accidental. According to the Bode - Titus relationship there was supposed to be a planet between Mars and Jupiter.

Basically the Bode-Titus relationship works like this: starting with Mercury as "0" in the first column add 3 to start Venus then double the number with each entry as a planet in the first column. In the second column add 4 and in the third column divide by ten and this should compare with the astronomical units of the planets orbital. Except for Pluto, which has a large eccentricity, each planet fits in relatively speaking. However there was a definite space between Mars and Jupiter, so astronomers searched for a planet. What they found was Asteroids. The Bode-Titus relationship is probably the largest influence on scientist for explaining the occurrence. The most common of the theories are: 1. The Asteroids are a spoiled planet in the making. or 2. A disintegrated planet. Neither one of these theories have been proved or disproved.

Planets: and their subplanets called Moons are the earliest known major bodies in the Solar System. Primitive peoples knew about the Sun, Moon and Earth. They could see them.

Before the fifteenth century seven planets had been noted; Sun, Earth, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. People began to realize what was going on in the Solar System. The word planet from the Greek word "wanderer" was given to those celestial bodies which could be tracked with the Stars.

Galileo applied the telescope to astronomical studies and revolutionalized astronomical observations. Soon more celestial bodies Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were added to the list of planets. So it became known the Earth is a planet orbiting about the Sun. The Moon is a subplanet orbiting about the Earth.

A lot is known about the planets now as compared to what was known in the fifteenth century. Planets are large massive objects in space orbiting the Sun. The smallest planet is Mercury and the largest is Jupiter. The moon of the planets are much smaller in size, however, some of Jupiter's moons are the size of the Earth. The number of moons each planet has is going to change because the outer planets have rings and it seems that the rings are made of particles. How big some of these ring particles are will determine if there are more moons.

Planets orbit the Sun in an elliptical motion with a described eccentricity continuously. Generally, all the orbits are in the same plane but there is a range of inclination to the plane by as much as 17 degrees by pluto. Very little alters a planets course through the Solar System.

The make-up of a planet is generally dense material. Most planets, like Earth, have an atmosphere of some sort. However, it is postulated that all planets have an atmosphere of some type. Any gas surrounding a planet other than hydrogen can be considered an atmosphere, so, it is more likely Mercury's atmosphere has not been detected yet.

All the planets are spherical with slight elongation at their equators. The elongation makes it difficult to accurately figure the volume of each of the planets. All the planets seem smooth. Some of the larger planets surface seems to be in a state of fluid, thus, they are very smooth. All the planets seem to follow Kepler's Law of Planetary Motion.

Three of the planets; Saturn, Uranus and Neptune have rings around them. The rings are continuous and can be seen with a good telescope or a instrumented fly-by. It is believed the rings are trapped gases or dust material as the inner edge and outer edges rotate about the planets at different speeds. Of all the planets, only Jupiter gives off radio waves. This would indicate some active energy creation process exists.

Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus are believed to have a small heavy core covered by thick atmosphere or fluid body like the Earth's oceans. However, the difference between the those planets and Earth is that there is no land area. Jupiter's and Saturn's surface, as we see it from Earth, show parallel bands. These bands circle the planet in alternating intensities and colors. The bands are in the direction of rotation. Also, the bands are not necessarily rotating at the same speed.

The Voyager 2 space mission has shown that Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus exhibit a characteristic in their upper atmospheres which requires energy from some other source than internal thermal energy and sunlight.

Another extremely interesting phenomenon occurring to one or more of Jupiter's moons is an intense electron current from a band going into and out of the planet which describes a donut as it circles with the moon. This current is believed to be the cause of Jupiter's radio waves. This is an interesting phenomenon which doesn't have an explanation yet.

Pioneer satellites have shown that of the planets visited, each is affected by the solar wind; each has some, however minute, magnetic moment; and each its mysteriousness.

Meteors: the rest of the space junk. Those items which are of astronomical travelers and are none orbiting. None returnables.

Meteorites are those bodies, primarily meteors, which hit a planet. Some Comets and Asteroids which crash into a planet and cease to exist as independent bodies are still considered comets and Asteroids but now are also called meteorites. However, after a Comet or Asteroid crashes into a planetary body, it is so much junk too. Typically, the meteorite impact area is called a meteorite crater, however, when a very, very, very big meteorite hits a planet it is called an Astroblem.

There is no telling how far space junk has traveled. Nor is there any way of determining how long space junk has been traveling. Of course the space junk that we can not determine travel time, is the junk humans have not introduced. Humans have introduced space junk too. However, most of the space junk humans send up, returns and burns up in the atmosphere. Seldom has human space junk hitting the Earth been referred to as a meteorite, but, it technically is.

Meteors are not part of the Solar System because they are not systematical in their nature of orbit around the Sun. None reoccurring. However, when a specific meteor is within the Solar System it makes up part of the System.

It may be noted that the probability that a piece of space junk the size of the Earth is on a direct collision course with Earth is almost guaranteed. Just that the space junk may be light years away and there is no telling when it will hit Earth. That is to say; the environment of Earth is very fragile when comparing it to the scheme of the Solar System.

The reason electric effects of the Solar System have been left out of the Classical Solar System Theory is because Electric Effects have not been know until recently. Also, space gas has been conveniently left out of the Classical Solar System Theory simply because space travel has been just recent too.

Relative planet size and orbital distance with respect to the sun.

If the Sun's diameter were incorporated in the distance plot, it would be less than the thickness of the line. Therefore, the solar system itself, as we know it, extends relatively far out into deep space with respect to the size of the Sun. Comets extend further yet out beyond Pluto.

If the maximums and minimum distances were plotted, Pluto's orbit would be closer to the Sun than Neptune some times. Of all the planets, Pluto's orbit is most distorted. Besides Pluto being extremely elliptical compared to the other 8 planets, Pluto has the greatest inclination of orbit.

Uranus's axis of rotation is not perpendicular to its orbit, but, parallel to its orbit.

Planetary Spin Vectors

I found that there are large discrepancies between various authors. I found simple things as the spin vector to range from 0 degrees to 28 degrees for the one planet of Mercury. Almost all the planets spin vectors were different depending on the authority. I found many different magnetic intensities and angles for the different planets. One would think that JPL and others would start to agree on what is happening. However, the don't. One can only approximate these things because there is too much diversity in the data of authorities.

Universally, I found that the author's reasoning for any discrepancies was the new measurements are more accurate and the last measurements must have been in error. This could well be true. However, I wonder if the old data was more accurate than was given credit. Time will tell.

All the planets, including Earth had different data for spins and magnetic fields. If by chance, the data is more accurate than given credit, then the spin angle, velocity, and magnetic vectors could be changing. Personally, I believe to some degree, this is what is happening. I feel, if consistent real time measurements were done, one would find that the spin angle of all the planets is changing depending on where the planet is with respect to the Sun independently accounting for gravity. Since Newton's and Kepler's theories would then fail if this were true, I believe that people tend to discount changes. What scientist wants to look like a fool? It's easier to say there is an error in data rather than assert anomalies in Newton's and Kepler's theory. However, my theory would allow for variances in these parameters.

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