Appendix:Planets

This table concerns those eight Solar System bodies that are planets according to the IAU definition: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

An ever growing list of planets around other stars can be found in The Extra-Solar Planets Catalog or California & Carnegie Planet Search.

Other classes of objects not considered major planets are found in the Asteroid belt, Kuiper belt, and Oort cloud.