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| | Solar system Article, Solarsystem Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | The planets of the solar system are those nine bodies traditionally labelled assuch: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. |
 | | Planetesimals, from which the planets were originally formed, aresub-planetary bodies that accreted during the first years of the solar system and that no longer exist. |
 | | The solar system is part of the Milky Way galaxy, a spiral galaxy with a diameter of about 100,000 light years containingapproximately 200 billion stars, of which our Sun is fairly typical. |
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