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Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto

Mass
0.3302 4.8685 5.974 0.6419 1,898.6 468.46 86.83 102.43 0.0125
1024 kg
Volume
6.083 92.843 108.321 16.318 143,128 82,713 6,833 6,254 0.0125
1010 km 3
MeanRadius
2,440 6,052 6,371 3,370 69,911 58,232 25,362 24,624 0.715
km
Surface
gravity(g) 3.7 8.9 9.8 3.7 24.8 10.4 8.9 11.2 0.58
ms 2
Numberof
0 0 1 2 63 33 26 13 1
Moons
Distance
fromSun
57.8 108.2 149.6 227.9 778.6 1,443.5 2,872.5 4,495.1 5,869.7
(semimajor
axis)106 km
Mindistance
fromsun
46.0 107.5 147.1 206.6 740.5 1,352.6 2,741.3 4,444.5 4,435.0
(perihelion)
106 km
Maxdistance
fromsun
69.8 108.9 152.1 249.2 816.6 1,514.5 3003.6 4,545.7 7,304.3
(aphelion)
106 km
Eccentricity 0.21 0.0067 0.017 0.094 0.049 0.057 0.046 0.011 0.24
Inclinationof
rotationto 0.01 177.36 23.45 25.19 3.13 26.73 97.77 28.32 122.55
orbit
Lengthof
"Day"
4,223 2,802 24.0 24.7 9.9 10.7 17.2 16.1 153.3
(Rotation
period)hrs
Lengthof
"Year"
87.969 224.701 365.256 686.980 4,332.589 10,759.22 30,685.4 60,189 90,465
(Orbital
period)days
William Johann Clyde
Discoverer Unknown Unknown Erm... Unknown Unknown Unknown Herschel Galle Tombaugh
(1781) (1846) (1930)
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Atmosphere
1015 92 1 0.006 >>1000 >>1000 >>1000 >>1000 106
Pressurebar

Atmosphere O 2,Na,
CO 2,N2 N22 CO 2,N2 H2,He H2,He H2,He H2,He CH4,N2
Composition H2

Average
Temperature 167 464 15 63 108 139 197 201 223
C


Source:NationalSpaceScienceDataCenter/NASA

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