What is the solar system? What are its constituents?

The sun, planets revolving around it and all the objects bound to the sun due to gravity is called the solar system. The solar family consists of eight planets with their moons, asteroids and comets. Mercury is the planet nearest to the sun followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.The space between Mars and Jupiter has a belt of pieces of rocks of various sizes which somehow failed to form a planet. The largest piece is 700 km in diameter while smallest is about 100 m in size. This belt is called Asteroid belt.