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GCSE Physics · key term
The Sun and the objects held in orbit around it by gravity, including planets and smaller bodies.
Used by Edexcel and OCR
Specification 7.2P · Paper 1
The Sun and the natural bodies associated with it, including eight planets, natural satellites, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets.
Revise: Solar System CompositionThe Solar System includes the Sun and the bodies associated with it. It has eight planets, including Earth. Planets travel around the Sun; they do not produce their own light as stars do.
Specification P8.3e · Paper 2 (Foundation), Paper 4 (Higher)
Revise: Solar systemThe Sun is a star. Its gravity holds the solar system together: eight planets orbit it, as do smaller bodies such as dwarf planets, asteroids and comets. A planet may also have objects orbiting it.
Paper 1, Paper 2
The Sun and the objects held in orbit around it by gravity, including planets and their moons.
Revise: Structure and Orbits of the Solar SystemThe Sun is the star at the centre of our solar system. Eight planets orbit it: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. They are alike in orbiting the Sun in the same direction on paths that are almost circular.
Include dwarf planets, asteroids and comets as well as the Sun, eight planets and natural satellites when listing the Solar System’s contents.
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