VENUS

PLANET
 INTRODUCTION

Contents VENUS: EARTH’S

TWIN PLANET ?

MORNING STAR –
EVENING STAR
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INTRODUCTI
ON
INTRODUCTION
• The second planet from the Sun
• One of the four terrestrial planets
in the Solar System
• The third brightest object after
the Sun and Moon
• Named after the Roman goddess
of love and beauty
 INTRODUCTION
• Venus orbits the Sun at an average
distance of about 0.72 AU and
completes an orbit every 224.7
days
• Venus's orbit is closest to a circle
with an eccentricity of less than
0.01.
• Venus has retrograde rotation
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VENUS: EARTH’S TWIN
PLANET ?
VENUS: EARTH’S TWIN PLANET

. Its size is 93% of Earth's diameter, 88% of its mass, has a similar
density and chemical composition, and is relatively young
 VENUS: EARTH’S TWIN
PLANET

• Its pressure is 90 times higher than Earth’s than Earth’s

• Dense layers of clouds containing sulfuric acid make it impossible for astronomers to
observe the true face of Venus
• The hottest planet in our Solar System with surface temperatures hot enough to melt
lead.
• Obviously with such an environment there can be no life.
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MORNING STAR-
EVENING STAR
 MORNING STAR-
EVENING STAR
• The terms "morning star" and "evening
star" applied only to the brightest
planet of all, Venus
• It is far more dazzling than any of the
actual stars in the sky and does not
appear to twinkle
• From the early hours of the eastern
morning sky to the western sky in the
early evening
 Story in
Vietnam
Love story of a woodcutter and a fairy → had a child → the
fairy had to fly back to the sky → the father and the son
came and meeting the fairy→they had to go home→
accident had happended, the son and the father die →the
woodcutter into the Evening star, the fairy into the
Morning star, and the child turned into a burden between
the Evening and Morning stars
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