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mercury
• Orbit.57910,000
• diameter,4,880km
• mass.3.3oe23km
• mercury has been known since
least the time of the Sumerians
(3rd million bc)
• the greeks gave mercury two
• names,hermes as an evening
star,Apollo for its morning star
Venus
Orbit-108200000 km from the sun.
Diameter-12103.6 km.
First visited by-Mariner 2
Earth
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Earth is the only in our solar system that has life forms on it
orbit:
149,600,000 km (1.00 AU) from Sun
diameter: 12,756.3 km
mass:
5.972e24 kg
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Earth is the only planet whose English name does not derive from
Greek/Roman mythology
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The Earth is the densest major body in the solar system.
• Earth is the 5th largest planet
Jupiter
Diameter-142984 km.
First visited by-pioneer 10
Atmosphere- 90% hydrogen 10%
helium.
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Saturn has 18 moons
orbit: 1,429,400,000 km (9.54 AU) from Sun
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diameter: 120,536 km (equatorial)
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mass: 5.68e26 kg
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Saturn has 13 Major rings
uranus
• Orbit.2,870,990,000km
diameter.51,118km
• mass.8,68e25km
Uranus is the ancient Greek deity of the
Heavens
Uranus is the ancient Greek earliest supreme god. Uranus was the
and mate of Gaia the father of Cronus
deity of the Heavens, the
18th moon of uranus
• A researcher at the
university of Arizona
in tucson identified the
18th moon of uranus
in june 99.
• The discovery just the
third moon found
around a major planet.
• The find was unusual
in that it came from
studying older images
obtain by the voyager
2 spacecraft in in
1986. The new
sateliute wich
astronimers estimate
to be about40km.
Neptune
Diameter-49532 km.
First visited by-Voyager 2
Composition- Ice,rock and hydrogen.
• Is a Disney character that is a dog
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Pluto is the farthest planet from the Sun (usually) and by far the smallest. Pluto
is smaller than seven of the solar system's moons (the Moon, Io, Europa,
Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and Triton).
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orbit: 5,913,520,000 km (39.5 AU) from the Sun (average)
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diameter: 2274 km
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mass: 1.27e22 kg