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A planet is a body (of a certain size) that orbits the/a Sun or star. The usual trick question : Q: What is the closest star to Earth? A: The Sun. As you are asking about the SOLar system, Sol being the name of our Sun you are only asking about bodies that orbit our own. Therefore teh answer to your question is NO. If a planet was out of the solar system it wouldn't be part of ours and therefore neither a planet nor a member of the system.

If you mean planetary systems in general, planets orbiting other stars and suns then the answer is an emphatic yes, hundreds of extra-solar bodies some in orbit of suns and some not have been discovered.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E xtrasolar_planet for more.

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anonymous
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hundreds is a bit of an understatement, theres more like a million billion trillion qaudrillion planets and even then thats only a drop in the ocean

Milander
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I was refering to those that HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED of course the assumption is that their are many many more one to which I subscribe. Read before posting comments plz.

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yes there are

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I saw this on discovery channel - 44 planets found with condition likey to be like Earths outside our solarsystem.
A few Stars with many planets orbiting where found while watching the aera of space suggested to be the likey spot in space to show the next closest objects outside our solar system.
Scientist have been looking for a while and bodies
were found.
One had a red dwalfstar a huge star with many other planets orbiting.
Life was more likey, now, able to live on other worlds thanks to this discovery.

I watched it just last week.

Seeing this must reall give you a distant image of a map of how big the Galaxy really is.

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no

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The answer is that no one knows at this time.
there are opinions but they are like armpits most of the time they stink