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    This document contains astronomical data about objects in our solar system. It provides key information like mass, radius, and distances for Earth, the Sun, and the Moon. It also lists data for the eight planets including their semimajor axis, orbital period, mass compared to Earth, and eccentricity. This data serves as a reference for basic properties of bodies in our solar system.

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    APPENDIX

    ASTRONOMICAL
    DATA

    Earth
    mass 5.975 x 1024 kg
    radius 6371 km
    acceleration due to gravity 9.80665 m/s2

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    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511818493.027 Published online by Cambridge University Press


    572 ASTRONOMICAL DATA

    Sun
    mass 1.987 x 10 30 kg
    radius 696,500 km
    Earth-Sun mean distance 1.496 x 1011 m = 1 AU

    Moon

    mass 7.343 x 10 22 kg
    radius 1738 km
    Earth-Moon mean distance 384,400 km

    Planet Semimajor axis (106 km) Orbital period (d) Mass/ME Eccentricity

    Mercury 57.9 87.96 0.055 0.2056

    Venus 108.2 224.68 0.81 0.0068

    Earth 149.6 365.24 1.00 0.0167

    Mars 227.9 686.95 0.11 0.0934

    Jupiter 778.3 4,337 318 0.0483

    Saturn 1427.0 10,760 95 0.0560

    Uranus 2871.0 30,700 15 0.0461

    Neptune 4497.1 60,200 17 0.0100

    Pluto 5983.5 90,780 0.0023 0.2484

    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511818493.027 Published online by Cambridge University Press

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