Question

How many planets are between earth and the sun?

Answer 1

Hint: We are asked the number of planets between earth and the sun. We can start by explaining the solar system and how many planets are in the solar system. Then we can easily find the number and name of the planets between earth and the sun.

Complete answer:
The sun and the earth are parts of the solar system. The solar system is a system of the sun and other objects or astronomical bodies that orbit around it. The sun is taken as an origin point and the planets are said to be orbiting around the sun. This orbiting of the planets is possible because of the gravitational force. Hence the solar system is bound by gravity.

It consists of the sun and eight planets. The planets in the order of least distance from the sun are; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If we look at this list, we can see that there are two planets between the sun and earth and they are mercury and Venus.

Therefore, there are two planets between the sun and the earth and they are Mercury and Venus.

Note: Initially, there were nine planets in our solar system. The planets in the order of least distance from the sun are; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,Neptune and Pluto. Later Pluto was disproved as a planet and moved onto the dwarf planet category because of the smaller size (which is evident from the name “dwarf” planet) and it does not have a clear neighborhood around it.