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When it gets close to the sun, the dust and ice form long, wispy tails that you can sometimes see from Earth. You probably know it by its amazing set of rings! Learn how you can get access to hundreds of topic-specific coding projects. TIM: But, you know, there probably wont be any more planets found. It started out around four and a half billion years agoBack then, our solar system was just a cloud of gas and dust, probably left over from the explosion of a star. TIM: It's huge, with a mass 318 times that of Earth! There are four rocky, inner planetsMercury, Venus, Earth, and Marsand four gas giants farther outJupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. 19992023 BrainPOP. TIM: Yup, Pluto is also a Kuiper belt object. TIM: Others became big balls of mostly gas called gas giants, like Jupiter. TIM: Saturn has more than 50 moons orbiting it. BrainPOP recommends reading the movie description that appears on the Solar System Topic Page to your class. 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