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Origin of the Swift Planet Phosphorus  Etymology. The Roman god of war king of the Roman gods, saturnus Georgium Sidus

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diameter 4,879.4 km 12,104 km 12,742 km 6,779 km 139,820 km 116,460 km 50,724 km 49,244 km

Size 1,516mi (2,440km) 3,760mi (6,052km) 3,959mi (6,371km)  2,106mi (3,390km) 43,441mi (69,911km) 36,184mi (58,232km) 15,759mi (25,362km) 15,299mi (24,622km) 

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revolution 87.97 days 224.7 days revolves in orbit around the sun in
365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes with 1.88 years
Jupiter's average distance from
the Sun is 480 million miles and 29.46 years
30,685 (84 Earth years) 0.67 (19.1 hours)

reference to the stars, at a speed takes nearly 12 years to make

ranging from 29.29 to 30.29 km/s one revolution. Like the rest of
the gas giants, Jupiter has a ring,
albeit small and flat.
Its rotation is the fastest of all
solar system planets, rotating
once on its axis every 10 hours.
rotation 58.6 days is one of just two planets
that rotate from east to west.
Earth rotates once in about 24 hours
with respect to the Sun, but once
As Mars orbits the Sun, it
completes one rotation every
Jupiter has the fastest rotation of
all the planets in the Solar
0.45 days 0.72 (17.9 Earth hours)(retrograde) 0.67 (19.1 hours)

Only Venus and Uranus have
this "backwards" rotation. It
completes one rotation in 243
Earth days — the longest day of
any planet in our solar system,
even longer than a whole year
on Venus
Moons 0 0
every 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 24.6 hours, which is very similar System, completing
seconds with respect to other, distant, to one day on Earth (23.9 one rotation on its axis every 9.9
stars (see below). Earth's rotation is hours). Martian days are called hours.
slowing slightly with time; thus, a day sols—short for "solar day." A
was shorter in the past. This is due to year on Mars lasts 669.6 sols,
the tidal effects the Moon has which is the same as 687 Earth
on Earth's rotation days.
1 2 79 82

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Discovery 265 BC astronomer Galileo Galilei
Peering through his newly-
year improved 20-power homemade
telescope at the planet Jupiter
on Jan. 7, 1610,
Italian astronomer Galileo
Galilei noticed three other
points of light near the planet,
at first believing them to be
distant stars.
Earth's only natural satellite is simply
called "the Moon" because people
didn't know other moons existed until
Galileo
Galilei discovered four moons orbiting
Jupiter in 1610
The first telescopic observation
of Mars was by Galileo Galilei in
In 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo
Galilei was the first to gaze
13 March 1781 23 September 1846
1610. at Saturn through a telescope. To
his surprise, he saw a pair of objects
on either side of the planet. He
sketched them as separate spheres
and wrote that Saturn appeared to
be triple-bodied.

discoverer/s Galileo Galilei Galileo Jesus Christ Galileo Galilei  Galileo Galilei  Galileo Galilei  William Herschel 

atmosphere At room
 

content temperature, Earth's atmosphere is composed of Jupiter is called a gas giant saturn is named after the Roman Atmosphere. Neptune's
exposed Carbon dioxide: 96 percent. about 78 percent nitrogen, 21 The atmosphere of Mars is planet. Its atmosphere is made god of wealth and agriculture; its Uranus' atmosphere is mostly atmosphere is made up mostly
elemental mercury Nitrogen: 3.5 percent. Carbon percent oxygen, 0.9 percent argon, much thinner than Earth's. The up of mostly hydrogen gas astronomical symbol (♄) represents hydrogen and helium, with a small of hydrogen and helium with
can evaporate to monoxide, argon, sulfur and 0.1 percent other gases. Trace Red Planet's atmosphere and helium gas, like the sun. The the god's sickle. The Romans named amount of methane and traces just a little bit of methane.
become an invisible, dioxide, and water vapor: less amounts of carbon dioxide, contains more than 95% carbon planet is covered in thick red, the seventh day of the week of water and ammonia. Neptune's neighbor Uranus is a
odorless toxic vapor than 1 percent. methane, water vapor, and neon are dioxide and much less than brown, yellow and white clouds. Saturday. ("Saturn's Day") no later The methane gives Uranus its blue-green color due to such
. If heated, it is a some of the other gases that make up 1% oxygen. People would not The clouds make the planet look than the 2nd century for the signature blue color atmospheric methane, but
colorless, odorless the remaining 0.1 percent be able to breathe the air on like it has stripes. planet Saturn. Neptune is a more vivid,
gas. Mars. brighter blue, so there must be
an unknown component that
causes the more intense color.