•Two types of planets
–Terrestrial Planets: small, rocky
material: inner solar
system
–Jovian Planets: large, H, He gas outer solar system
•
•Small left-over material
provides
“fossil” record of early conditions
–Asteroids – mostly between orbits of Mars and
Jupiter
–Comets – mostly in outermost part of solar
system
–Meteorites – material which falls to earth