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7…SOME STATISTICS of Our Solar System. and,Man made Definitions. By OBSERVATION and ADVENTURE OUR SUN: Diameter- 1.4 million kilometer away Nearest Star to Earth. Age. 4.5 billion years?? Rotates on its axis, once every 27 days. MERCURY: Diameter-4,880 kilometres Distance from SUN-58 million kilometers. Period of Revolution around the SUN-87.96 Earth days. Period of Rotation-58.7 Earth days VENUS: Diameter-12,104 kilometers Distance from SUN-108 million kilometers Period of Revolution around the SUN-224,68 Earth Days Period of Rotation- 243 Earth Days
EARTH: Diameter 12,256 kilometres Distance from SUN-150 million kilometers Period of Revolution around the SUN-365.26 Earth Days Period of Rotation- 24 Hours. Number of Moons =1 MARS: Diameter 6,790 kilometres Distance from SUN-228 million kilometers Period of Revolution around the SUN-686.98 Earth Days Period of Rotation- 24.6 Earth Hours. Number of Moons=2 CERES: a dwarf planet Diameter 950 kilometres Distance from SUN-419 million kilometers Period of Revolution around the SUN-1679.8 Earth Days Period of Rotation- 9.07 Earth Hours. Number of Moons=0 JUPITER: Diameter 142,800 kilometres Distance from SUN-778 million kilometers Period of Revolution around the SUN-11,862 Earth YEARS Period of Rotation- 9.84 Earth Hours. Number of Moons=64 SATURN:: Diameter 120,680 kilometres Distance from SUN-1,427 million kilometers Period of Revolution around the SUN-29,456 Earth YEARS Period of Rotation- 10.2 Earth Hours. Number of Moons=54
URANUS:: Diameter 51,118 kilometres Distance from SUN-2,871 million kilometers Period of Revolution around the SUN-84.07 Earth YEARS Period of Rotation- 17.9 Earth Hours. Number of Moons=27
NEPTUNE:: Diameter 48,600 kilometres Distance from SUN-4,497 million kilometers Period of Revolution around the SUN-164.81 Earth YEARS Period of Rotation- 19.1 Earth Hours. Number of Moons=37 PLUTO: Diameter 2274 kilometres Distance from SUN-5,913 million kilometers Period of Revolution around the SUN-247.7 Earth YEARS Period of Rotation- 6.39 Earth Hours. Number of Moons=4 ERIS: Diameter 2300 kilometres Distance from SUN-Various due to eleptical orbit Period of Revolution around the SUN-557 Earth YEARS Period of Rotation- Uncertain. Number of Moons=1 |
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