1 A.U. = 149.6 million km.
When planets orbit the Sun they do so in egg – shaped paths called elliptical orbits. This means that sometimes the planets are nearer the Sun than at other times during their orbit.
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The Earth moves in an elliptical orbit around the Sun.
The order of the planets away from the Sun is: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, (inner planets), Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (outer planets).
Between the inner and outer planets exists a massive collection of asteroids which are sometimes called minor planets? These asteroids have irregular shapes and form a thick spherical shell of rocky matter at a fixed orbit around the Sun. This massive collection is called the asteroid belt.
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