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Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Sun, by itself accounts for about 99.86% of the Solar System's mass; the remainder consists of the planets (including Earth), asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and dust in orbit. About three-fourths of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen,...
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Mercury
Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three...
Orbits:
Orbital Order:
- 1
Epoch:
- 2,001 yr. 4 mon 13 d 7 h 59 min 48 s
Orbit Type:
Orbital Period:
- 2 mon 27 d 3 h 15 min 24 s
Semi-major Axis:
- 57,909,100 km (35983047 mi )
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun. It is the fifth largest of the eight planets in the solar system, and the largest of the terrestrial planets (non-gas planets) in the Solar System in terms of diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to...
Orbits:
Periapsis:
- 147,098,074 km (91402505.6 mi )
Orbital Order:
- 3
Aoapsis:
- 152,097,701 km (94509129.8 mi )
Orbited by:
Orbit Eccentricity:
- 0.01671
Inclination:
- 7.25 ° (0.127 rad )
Orbital Period:
- 1 yr. 6 h 9 min 10 s
Average Orbital Speed:
- 29.783 km/s (66623 mph )
Semi-major Axis:
- 149,597,887.5 km (92955817.71 mi )
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. It is also referred to as the "Red Planet" because of its reddish appearance, due to iron oxide prevalent on its surface.
Mars is a...
Orbits:
Orbital Order:
- 4
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass slightly less than one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all of the other planets in our Solar...
Orbits:
Orbital Order:
- 5
Orbit Eccentricity:
- 0.04877
Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn, along with Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, is classified as a gas giant. Together, these four planets are sometimes referred to as the...
Orbits:
Orbital Order:
- 6
Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, and the third-largest and fourth most massive planet in the Solar System. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus (Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός) the father of Kronos (Saturn) and grandfather...
Orbits:
Orbital Order:
- 7
Neptune
Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun in our Solar System. Named for the Roman god of the sea, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its...
Orbits:
Orbital Order:
- 8
Orbit Eccentricity:
- 0.01121
Pluto
Pluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System (after Eris) and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun. Classified as a planet from its 1930 discovery until 2006, Pluto is now...
Orbits:
Orbital Order:
- 9
2309 Mr. Spock
This article is about the asteroid. For other uses, see Spock (disambiguation).
2309 Mr. Spock (1971 QX1) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on August 16, 1971 by the comet, asteroid, and Milky Way astronomer James B. Gibson at the Yale-Columbia...
Orbits:
Orbit Eccentricity:
- 0.08761
Ceres
Ceres, formal designation 1 Ceres, is the smallest identified dwarf planet in the Solar System and the only one in the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 1 January 1801, by Giuseppe Piazzi, and is named after the Roman goddess Ceres — the goddess...
Orbits:
Periapsis:
- 381,419,582 km (237003140 mi )
Aoapsis:
- 447,838,164 km (278273734 mi )
Orbit Eccentricity:
- 0.07976
Inclination:
- 10.58671 ° (0.184773 rad )
Orbital Period:
- 4 yr. 7 mon 6 d 21 h 39 min 1 s
Average Orbital Speed:
- 17.882 km/s (40001 mph )
Semi-major Axis:
- 414,703,838 km (257685018 mi )
5318 Dientzenhofer
5318 Dientzenhofer is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after Christoph Dientzenhofer (1655-1722) and his son Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer (1689-1751), members of the Dientzenhofer family of architects.
Orbits:
Orbit Eccentricity:
- 0.1342
Inclination:
- 3.31078 ° (0.057784 rad )
