Thanga Bharathi: Amma solar system is also like a family .
Amma : How is it Bharathi?
Thanga Bharathi : Our solar system is a family of planets.Dwarf
planets,comets and asteroids etc.
Amma : Where as we don’t have such things in our family.
Thangabharathi: Similarly in our family too we have father, mother,
grandmother, grandfather, brother, sister, uncle, aunt etc.
Amma : DO they have a house to live like us.
Thanga Bharathi: Why not? They live in a big palace called milky way.
Amma : Finish your lecture before your father comes .
Thanga Bharathi : Amma you know the Sun is the head of the solar family
similar to you ad dad being the head of our family.
Amma : Will they also fight with their elder sister and younger brother
like you?
Thanga Bharathi: NO.All the planets differ in size, colour composition etc,but
they remain united as a family.
Amma : I always wonder why there are no traffic jams and accidents
in their orbits.
Thangabharathi: This quality is absent in humans amma. We try to tress pass
the rules where as they adhere to the rules strictly.
Amma : I have lot of work to do as my distant cousins are coming
home today.
Thanga Bharathi : The asteroids are considered as the distant cousins of the
planets.. All the planets are considered as the siblings to each other and the
satellites are the grand children. Just as the gravity helps them stay put in the
orbit the love and affection helps us to live happily with our family. That’s why
I said the human family resembles that of the solar family.
Amma : Thanga Bharthi I am proud of you. That’s why our ancestors
used to say that the macrocosm is in the microcosm and vice versa.