Inferior and superior planets Inferior and superior planets In the Solar System, a planet is said to be inferior or interior with respect to another planet if its orbit lies inside the other planet's orbit around the Sun. In this situation, the latter planet is said to be superior to the former. In the reference frame of the Earth, in which the terms were originally used, the inferior planets are Mercury and Venus, while the superior planets are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Dwarf planets like Ceres or Pluto and most asteroids are 'superior' in the sense that they almost all orbit outside
Upsilon Andromedae from the star. Both of these planets are in more eccentric orbits than any of the planets in the Solar System (including Pluto). Upsilon Andromedae d resides in the system's habitable zone. The orbital parameters of this three planet system have been fully determined. The system is not coplanar, with each other or with the stellar rotation, as in our solar system. Simulations shows that the measured configuration of the planets produces indeed stable orbits for at least 100 million years, where planets "b" and "d" remain roughly coplanar. General relativity is expected to have strong effects on planet "b",