A Survey of the Solar System

Using Nested Unordered Lists

Here is a classification of the information about the solar system, from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, 1980. Some details have been omitted.

Unordered Version 1: Default bullets

• The Sun
• The major planets and their satellites
• Other constituents of the solar system
  • Minor planets, or asteroids
    • History of discoveries up to the early 1970's
    • Naming of the minor planets
  • Comets
    • History of the observation of comets
    • Comet orbits
  • Meteors and meteoroids
  • Objects recovered on the Earth that have either a certainly extraterrestrial origin or a possibly extraterrestrial origin
    • Meteorites
    • Tektites
  • The interplanetary medium
• Regularities of the planetary medium
• Interactions among various bodies in the solar system