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Basic Planetary Data Roma - Tokyo
Andata e ritorno
Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter
€ 697 SCEGLI
Mean distance from Sun
57.9 108.2 149.6 227.9 778.3
(millions of kilometers)
Palermo - Tokyo
Mean distance from Sun Andata e ritorno
36.0 67.24 92.9 141.71 483.88
(millions of miles)
Period of revolution 88 days 224.7 days 365.2 days 687 days 11.86 yrs € 698 SCEGLI
23 hr 9 hr
243 days 24 hr
Rotation period 59 days 56 min 55 min
retrograde 37 min
4 sec 30 sec
Inclination of axis Near 0° 3° 23°27' 25° 12' 3° 5' Calculator
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7° 3.4° 0° 1.9° 1.3°
to ecliptic
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Eccentricity of orbit .206 .007 .017 .093 .048 Distance
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Equatorial diameter
4,880 12,100 12,756 6,794 142,800 Periodic Table
(kilometers)
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(miles) 3,032.4 7,519 7,926.2 4,194 88,736 Perpetual
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Atmosphere Virtually Carbon Nitrogen Carbon Hydrogen
Year by Year
(main components) none dioxide oxygen dioxide helium
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Satellites 0 0 1 2 631
Rings 0 0 0 0 3 24 X 7
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Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto5
Mean distance from Sun
1,427 2,870 4,497 5,900
(millions of kilometers)
Mean distance from Sun
887.14 1,783.98 2,796.46 3,666
(millions of miles)
Period of revolution 29.46 yrs 84 yrs 165 yrs 248 yrs 24 x 7 Tutor
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16.8 hr (?) 16 hr
Rotation period 40 min 18 mins Online Tutoring
retrograde 11 min (?)
24 sec retrograde
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Inclination of axis 26°44' 97°55' 28°48' 60° (?)
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Inclination of orbit Math , Grade 3
2.5° 0.8° 1.8° 17.2° Math
to ecliptic
Eccentricity of orbit .056 .047 .009 .254
Equatorial diameter
120,660 51,810 49,528 2,290 (?)
(kilometers)
(miles) 74,978 32,193 30,775 1,423 (?)
Helium Hydrogen
Atmosphere Hydrogen None
hydrogen helium
(main components) helium detected
methane methane
Satellites 562 273 134 36
Rings 1,000 (?) 11 4 ?
1. Forty-five of these moons were discovered only recently, from 2000–2003.
2. Nine new moons were announced in June 2006: S/2004 S19 and S/2006 S1 through S/2006 S8.
3. S/2001 U2 and S/2003 U3 were announced in Fall 2003. 4. S/2003 N1 was announced in Fall 2003.
5. In 2006, the IAU declared Pluto to be a dwarf planet.
6. Two new moons were sighted by the Hubble Space Telescope in Oct. 2005 and confirmed in Feb. 2006.
Source: Basic NASA data and other sources.
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