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Discovery Of The Solar System

By mattcrockett33
  • Jan 1, 1001

    First two planets and last three planets were discovered

    The fist two planets, Mercury, Venus, and the last three Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were discovered by babylonian astronomers.
  • Apr 29, 1543

    Earth is considered a planet

    1543) the Earth came to be considered a planet revolving with the other planets around the Sun, in the following order of distance from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

  • Kepler

    Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) who discovered and demonstrated that the Earth orbits the Sun.

  • Discovery of Uranus

    William Herschel first discovered the planet Uranus

  • Discovery of Neptune

    Galle and Le Verrier discovered Neptune

  • Discovery of Pluto

    Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto