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solar system

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
solar system

▶noun the sun together with the planets, asteroids, comets, etc. in orbit around it.

'solar system' also found in these Oxford entries:

Copernican system - cosmogony - earth - exoplanet - extrasolar - galaxy - heliocentric - heliosphere - Jupiter - major planet - Mars - Mercury - meteoroid - Milky Way - Neptune - orrery - Pluto - retrograde - rim - Saturn - solar wind - Uranus - Venus

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formed in the same way as were the planets in the inner solar system

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