The solar system includes moons (and some of those moons have moons), supernova explosions, comets, meteors, asteroids, and plain old space dust. To be sure, there are more objects in our solar system, some of which have yet to be discovered.
The canal was not complete in 1825, however. Many years after opening, people decided the canal needed to be a bit wider and larger. People wanted to connect more waterways to the Erie Canal in order to get full use out of the canal system. So, between 1836 and 1862 the Erie Canal was made wider and was connected to other canals.
In Bodies of Water. The Erie Canal connects New York City and Buffalo, New York, a  distance of 363 miles. It opened in 1825 to connect the Atlantic  Ocean, traveling up the Hudson River from Nâ¦ew York City to Albany  and taking the canal to Lake Erie and the Great Lakes System.