Solar System Reference Data
Table of asteroids
Table of comets
Table of moons
Table of planets and dwarf planets
Mercury,
Venus,
Earth,
Mars,
Jupiter,
Saturn,
Uranus,
Neptune (individual planet statistics pages...)
Pluto,
Makemake,
Ceres, Eris (individual dwarf planet statistics pages...)
Table of orbital data for planets and dwarf planets
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Our 2010 Summer issue of The Earth Scientist includes six articles dealing with various aspects of Earth Science. An article from NOAA details how lake effect snow can, under the right conditions, actually occur on the narrow Mississippi River.
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Axis tilt means that as a planet goes around the Sun, it isn’t sitting straight up--it’s tilted! The Earth is tilted by 23.5 degrees, which means that sometimes the northern hemisphere is tilted toward
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Rotational period is the time it takes for a planet or moon to spin around once. On Earth, this time is 1 day. Venus spins very slowly! Scientists think this is because a long time ago something big hit
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Asteroids are small bodies that are believed to be left over from the beginning of the solar system 4,600 million years ago. They are rocky objects with strange shapes up to several hundred km across,
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When we look at images of many of the planets, we see all sorts of circular craters on the planet surfaces. Most of these craters were probably formed when the solar system was still very young. Once
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