THE SOLAR SYSTEM

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 Venus: Venus is the second planet
Mercury:Earth
Mercury
: Earthisisthe
thesmallest
third planet Saturn Neptune: Neptune is the eighth
: Saturn is the sixth planet
from the Sun, orbitingJupiter: Jupiter is the fifth planet Uranus:and
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Earth formed
2,440 km over 4.5 billion years that of Earth. Radius: 58,232 km
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6,052 times
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planet.
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billion24,622
km km
Distance ago.
from Radius:
Sun: 57.916,371 million
km km Distance from Sun: 1.433 billion km
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460.26.39 in the
million Solarkg
× 10^23
km² System combined. Mass: 8.681
Distance
× 10^25from
kg Sun: 4.495 billion km
Mass: 3.285Mass:
× 10^23
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Mass: 4.867 ×Distance
10^24 kg Radius:
from Sun: 69,911
227.9km million km Orbital period:
Orbital84period:
years 165 years
Surface area:
Age: 74.8
4.543million
billionkm²years Orbital period: 29 years
Distance from Sun: 108.2 Mass: 1.898km
million × 10^27 kg (317.8 M⊕) Surface area: Mass:8.083
1.024billion
× 10^26km²kg
Length ofDistance
day: 58dfrom
15h 30mSun: 149.6 million km Surface area: 42.7 billion km²
Orbital period: 225 days Distance from Sun: 778.5 million km Surface area: 7.618 billion km²
Orbital period: 12 years
Surface area: 61.42 billion km²
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