1 This is particularly important in the context of aviation insurance regulation-assignment of a policy would mean assigning the benefit of a policy to the bank which is illegal in the context of some insurance eg passenger insurance.
Outer Planets. The next four planets out from the sun are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. They are collectively referred to as the Jovian planets (means Jupiter like). They are significantly different from the terrestrial planets. Besides being farther from the sun, the Jovian planets are much larger, are more gaseous, have lower densities, and all have some sort of rings. Their large sizes are responsible for increased gravity which can hold onto lighter elements like gases. A belt of asteroids (fragments of rock and iron) between Mars and Jupiter separate the four inner planets from the five outer planets. Pluto, which fits in with neither the terrestrial or the Jovian planets, is actually considered a Kuiper Belt object which we will see in more depth on the Kuiper Belt page.
âThe inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) all formed from the disk of gas and dust, the solar nebula, that surrounded our young sun.â âOf the four inner planets, also known as terrestrial or rocky planets, Mercury is the smallest, oldest, and densest.â âThe eighth planet from the sun, its gaseous structure contrasts with the rocky inner planets.â âThe inner planets move fast, and make repeated transit cycles over the course of a few months or years; the outer planets move much more slowly, but the contacts they do make are often very significant.â