MAJOR PLANETS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Major Planets of the Solar System
PlanetDistance from the sun(AU)Period of revolutionPeriod of rotationMass(earth=1)Diameter(earth=1)Number of known satellites
Mercury0.3988 days59 days0.060.380
Venus0.72225 days243 days0.820.950
Earth1365 days24 hours111
Mars1.52687 days25 hours0.110.532
Jupiter5.2012 years10 hours317.8911.1939
Saturn9.5429 years10 hours95.159.4430
Uranus19.284 years18 hours14.544.1021
Neptune30.06165 years18 hours17.233.888
Pluto39.44248 years6.4 days0.002?0.181
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books on: Major Planets of the Solar System  - 4297 results

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The Quest for Alien Planets: Exploring Worlds outside the Solar System
Book by Paul Halpern; Plenum Trade, 1997
Subjects: Human-Alien Encounters, Life On Other Planets
...discovered. Five of the planets in the Solar System -- Mercury...rocky worlds of the inner Solar System known as the "terrestrial" planets for their...outer worlds of the Solar System are sometimes...the Jovian planets. These four...
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The Superpower Space Race: An Explosive Rivalry through the Solar System
Book by Robert Reeves; Plenum Press, 1994
Subjects: Outer Space--Exploration--Soviet Union--History, Outer Space--Exploration--United States--History, Space Probes, Space Race--Soviet Union--History, Space Race--United States--History
...the solar system? These questions...close. THE EVENING STAR...thousands of years. Shining...during a solar transit...considering the planets total cloud...named "Syrtis Major." Just seven...When the solar system is conquered...dreamed of perfecting...freely in the third dimension...moon and planets. Even while...
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Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Book by Peter Cosgrove; University of Delaware Press, 1999
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--Historiography, Gibbon, Edward--1737-1794--Criticism And Interpretation, Gibbon, Edward--1737-1794--History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, Historians In Literature, Intertextuality, Literature And History, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D--Historiography
...universalis of Leibniz as a user of the system. This somewhat Pyrrhic triumph...of the progressive and residual systems of value, the aristocratic heroic-romance...first chapter I shall explore the system of the impartial stranger to show...
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Astronomy: A Revision of Young's Manual of Astronomy - Vol. 1
Book by Henry Norris Russell, Raymond Smith Dugan, John Quincy Stewart; Ginn, 1926
Subjects: Astronomy, Solar System
...CHAPTER XII. THE MAJOR PLANETS 361 Jupiter Saturn...CHAPTER XIII. COMETS AND METEORS; ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM 406 Comets: Number...
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Worlds without End: The Exploration of Planets Known and Unknown
Book by John S. Lewis; Perseus Books, 1998
Subjects: Extrasolar Planets, Life On Other Planets, Planets
...represented in our Solar System: the planets that orbit...only kinds of planets that...plays a major role in governing...origin of the Solar System, not to the modern Sun...presolar cloud of gas and dust...categories of planets, however...the three major categories...
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journal articles on: Major Planets of the Solar System  - 134 results

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Explanation Content and Construction During System Learning and Troubleshooting
Journal article by Christopher R. Hale, Lawrence W. Barsalou; Journal of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 4, 1995
Subjects: Education--United States, Learning
...applied to both system learning and...falling into three major groups: topography...content. Although the distribution of these codes differed...construction during system learning: Subjects...component did within the context of neighboring components...remindings is a major theme in the...
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Christian Theology and Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
Journal article by Thomas F. O'Meara; Theological Studies, Vol. 60, 1999
Subjects: Life on other planets--Religious aspects, Theology--Analysis
...the forms of intelligent life on planets of incredible distance need not be threatening to us. The fear about invasions from aliens...of our fallen condition upon other solar systems, a presumption that our debilitated...
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Equal Area Map Projection for Irregularly Shaped Objects
Journal article by Yang Cheng, Jean J. Lorre; Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 27, 2000
Subjects: Mappings (Mathematics)--Innovations, Planets--Maps, Three-dimensional display systems--Innovations
...and Deimos. The three major contributions of this paper are: * A 2...simple and accurate, and the interpolated surface is...involve a huge nonlinear system. Eventually, a special...gravitational field of Phobos. Solar System Research 15:104-111...
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H. G. Wells, Visionary Telescopes, and the "Matter of Mars"
Journal article by Robert Crossley; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 83, 2004
Subjects: Art and science, Human condition, Mars (Planet)--Portrayals, Technology and civilization, Technology and society, The War of the Worlds (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, The War of the Worlds (Novel)--Influence, Wells, H.G.--Criticism and interpretation
...inhabitants of other planets in her dreams but the experiment fails because...poetic; the night skies of Jupiter with its four...become the cynosure of the solar system. When that change occurred...and later still Syrtis Major, and in 1672 he drew...
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Planetary Perils in Prague
Journal article by Owen Gingerich; Daedalus, Vol. 136, 2007
Subjects: International Astronomical Union--Management, Pluto (Planet)--Identification and classification, Prague, Czech Republic
...definition would open the gates to a dozen more solar-system planets, and maybe as many as thirty or even forty, and that these would primarily be dirty iceballs of the Pluto class, and not major planets like Uranus or Neptune. I therefore proposed...
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New Mysteries Replace the Old: The Galileo Probe Is Sending Surprises from the Biggest Planet in Our Solar System
Magazine article by Phil Berardelli; Insight on the News, Vol. 12, December 23, 1996
Subjects: Europa (Satellite)--Observations, Galileo Project (Space probe)--Observations, Ganymede (Satellite)--Observations, Io (Satellite)--Observations, Jupiter (Planet)--Atmosphere, Satellites--Jupiter
...by Voyager of the solar systems biggest moon suggested...or furrow seen at the Voyager resolution...says James Head of Brown University...to Jupiter of the major moons, it constantly...time-lapse images of the planets clouds with every...
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Hello! Is There Anybody out There?
Magazine article by Judith Braffman-Miller; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 126, January 1998
Subjects: Astronomy--Observations, Extraterrestrial life--Discovery and exploration, Life on other planets--Discovery and exploration, Planets--Discovery and exploration, Solar system--Discovery and exploration
...two new planets outside our solar system. Marcy told the press that the new planets "almost smell like home." One...to have aided the development of life on Earth. The two planets...and 47 Ursae Majoris in Ursa Major (the Big Dipper). Although both...
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The Mysterious Moons of Jupiter
Magazine article by Judith Braffman-Miller; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 129, July 2000
Subjects: Callisto (Satellite)--Discovery and exploration, Europa (Satellite)--Discovery and exploration, Ganymede (Satellite)--Discovery and exploration, Io (Satellite)--Discovery and exploration, Jovian satellites, Satellites--Jupiter, Solar system--Observations
...have now been added to the planets Mercury, Venus, and Mars...important bodies inhabiting the Solar System. The Galilean moons vary...Callisto, a frigid ball of mud and ice nearly as big...revealed sulfur to be a major component of Ios composition...
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A Space in Time: Click for the Universe ... Your Home Computer, Thanks to the Windows That NASA Has Poked in Space, Is the Site of the Greatest Show on Earth. A Deskbound Cosmic Pilgrim Beckons Us to an Available Sublimity
Magazine article by Michael Benson; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, July 2002
Subjects: Astronomy--Portrayals, Digital electronics, Image processing, Image processing--Digital techniques, Information services, Internet services--Usage, Online services--Usage, Solar system--Discovery and exploration, United States. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Research
...image trail to the farthest periphery of the solar system, to Uranus and Neptune, the most-distant planets ever visited by a space probe, I catalogue...along the way. Theres Miranda, the smallest of Uranuss major moons. This 290-miles-in-diameter object...
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Alone in the Universe? Quirks of Oasis Earth
Magazine article by D. E. Brownlee; World and I, Vol. 16, February 2001
Subjects: Earth--Research, Moon--Research, Plate tectonics--Research, Solar system--Research
...A list of major factors points...in terms of the type of galaxy and solar system it occupies...almost sister planets. The large...gravitational effects of other bodies in our solar system. This tilt...would make the planets climate very...
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Will Anyone Miss the Solar System's Beloved Underdog?
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 25, 2006
...and Space "took a lot of heat" from some astronomers five years ago for leaving Pluto out of its display of the major planets in our solar system, he said. "Pluto is everyones favorite underdog," Mr. Reddy said. Robert Millis, director of Lowell Observatory...
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Stanford Site Enlightens on Mysteries of the Sun
Newspaper article by Joe Szadkowski; The Washington Times, November 14, 1999
Subjects: Stanford University
...icons for entry points into the major sections of the site, which range from About the...investigating the largest object in our solar system. For example, under the Sunspots...explain whether they are seeing planets whizzing by the sun. Cyber-sitter...
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YOUR FORTUNE & HEALTH IN THE STARS; Welcome to Day Two of the Most Comprehensive Starguide to 1997. Today, Scotland's Top Astrologer LYNNE EWART Charts Your FORTUNE and HEALTH for the Year Ahead. Tomorrow, CASH and CAREER Are Highlighted ..
Newspaper article by Lynne Ewart; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), December 31, 1996
...in 1997! HEALTH The circulatory system is sensitive in Aquarians, so you...extremes. Another delicate area is the tummy and breasts and when youre...your horoscope for 1997, with all of the major planets in "pull together" mode, although...
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'Pluto, the Renewer' Still Included in New Recording of 'The Planets' Suite
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 13, 2006
Subjects: Planets
...the known planets in our solar system, was incomplete. Pluto...Holsts work, writing "Pluto, the Renewer," as an unofficial...subscription series performances of "The Planets." But now, instead of...Bachs Partita No. 3 in E Major for unaccompanied violin...
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Renaissance Duo Symbiotically Mapped Paths to the Planets
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 13, 2003
Subjects: Kepler, Johannes
...Austria. His insight led to his first major publication, the "Mysterium Cosmographicum" of 1596. In that book Kepler put forth...erroneous - theory that the orbits of the planets and their positions in the solar system correspond to a nesting, one inserted...
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encyclopedia articles on: Major Planets of the Solar System  - 12 results

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Major Planets of the Solar System
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
MAJOR PLANETS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM Major Planets of the Solar System Planet Distance from the sun (AU) Period of revolution Period of rotation Mass (earth=1...
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Solar System
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...are the eight major planets ; other parts of the solar system are discussed...table entitled Major Planets of the Solar System . Planetary...Most of the major planets have one or...natural . Origin of the Solar System Besides explaining...
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Planet
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...meteoroids (see meteor ; see also planetary science and planetary system , as well as the table entitled Major Planets of the Solar System ). Classification of the Major Planets The major planets are classified either as inferior, with an...
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Asteroid
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...shaped, unlike the spherically shaped major planets. The largest asteroids, Quaoar (diameter...comet ) and are about half the size of Pluto. The largest main-belt asteroid...asteroids with orbits in the outer solar system. Asteroids are also classified by...
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Comet
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...to the inner solar system in highly elongated...hundred to thousands of years. Still others...and reach aphelion (the orbital point farthest...approaches the sun, the solar wind drives particles...induced by the giant planets gravity shattered...into more than 20 major fragments, the largest...
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