Superior Planet

• Jupiter

  The largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest...

• Mars

  A small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked...

• Neptune

  A giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote...

• Pluto

  A small planet and the farthest known planet from the sun; it has the most elliptical orbit...

• Saturn

  A giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the...

• Uranus

  A giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 7th planet from the sun has a blue-green...

Terrestrial Planet

• world

  The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on; "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he...

• Mercury

  The smallest planet and the nearest to the sun.

• Venus

  The second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde...

Celestial Body

• planet

  (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around...

• minor planet

  Any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun.

Also contains

• outer planet

  (astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn,...

• interplanetary medium

  Interplanetary space including forms of energy and gas and dust.

• sun

  The star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system; "the sun...

• Kuiper belt

  A disk-shaped region of minor planets outside the orbit of Neptune.