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THE PRECISE ORDER IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

The solar system that is home to our Earth is one of the best
places to observe the universe’s precise order and harmony. The
unequalled order that controls all planets, large or small, within
the solar system has been responsible for its stability over the
past 4.5 billion years.

In our solar system, there are nine planets, and orbiting
them are the 54 satellites discovered so far. Beginning with the
nearest to the Sun, these planets are: Mercury, Venus, Earth,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto. Out of all
these planets and their satellites, Earth is the only one with a sur-
face and atmosphere suitable for life.
The balance between the Sun’s gravity and any planet’s

centrifugal force prevents it from being flung out into space. The
Sun’s massive gravitational force attracts the planets, which can
only withstand this force and not fall into the Sun’s nuclear fur-
nace because of the centrifugal forces their motion creates. If the
planets’ speed were a little slower in their orbits, however, they
would be rapidly pulled into towards the Sun, which would
swallow them up.
The opposite is also possible. Were the planets to rotate any
faster, the Sun’s gravitational forces would not be powerful

enough to keep them in their orbits and they would be cast out
into space. However, a fine balance between these forces exists,
and the solar system preserves it.
This balance of forces differs separately for each planet in

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