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Properties Sun Mercury Venus  Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus  Neptune Pluto
Equatorial Radius
in km 695,990 2439  6052 6378  1738 3398 71,494  60330  25559  24750  1151 
in Earth radii 109.12 0.38 0.95 1.00 0.27 0.53 11.20 9.42 4.01 3.93 0.18
in miles 432560 1516 3761 3964 1080 2112 44,434 37,495 15,885 15,382 715
Equatorial  diameter
in km 1,391,980 4878 12,104 12,756 3476 6796 142,900 129,660 51,118 49,500 2,300
in  mi 865,120 3031 7522 7928 2160 4224 88,868 74,990 31,770 30,764 1430
Mass 
Earth masses
in kg
1.989x1030 0.056
3.31x1023
0.82 4.87x1024  1.00
5.98x1024
0.012
7.35x1022
0.11 0.64x1024 317.83
1.90x1027
95.15
5.69x1026
14.54
8.69x1025
17.23
1.03x1026
0.0022
1.2x1022
Density 1.4 5.4 5.2 5.5 3.3 3.9 1.3 0.69 1.29 1.7 2.0
Surface gravity E=1 0.38 0.90 1.0 0.167 0.38 2.5 base of clouds 1.2 base of clouds 0.92 1.2 0.06
Escape velocitykm/s 617.7 4.3 10.3 11.2 2.38 5.0 61 35.6 22 25 1.2
Distance from Earth from Earth
  in AU 1.00 0.39 0.72 1.00 1.52 5.20 9.54 19.18 30.06 39.44
106km 149.6 57.9 108.2 149.6 0.3846 227.9 778.3 1427.0 2869.0 4497.1 5900
Period of Revolution N/A 0.24y (87.97d) 0.62y (224.7d) 1y
(365.26d)
27.32d (si) 29.53d(sy) 1.88y
(686.95d)
11.87y 29.46y 84.01y 164.79y 247.7y
Period of Rotation 25d at equator 58.65d 243.01d Retro 24h00mso 23h56msi 29.53d 24h37m 9h51m 10h39m 17h14m 16h03m 6d09h21m
 Orbital Velocity
km/s N/A 47.9 35.03 29.79 1.022 24.13 13.06 9.64 6.81 5.43 4.74
mi/s N/A 29.8 21.8 18.5 0.64 15.0 8.1 6.0 4.2 3.4 3.0
Orbital eccentricity N/A 0.21 0.0068 0.017 0.055 0.093 0.048 0.056 0.046 0.010 0.25
Inclination of orbit to the Ecliptic N/A 7o00'16' CHECK 3o23'40" 0o by definition 5o 09" 1o51'09" 1o18'29" 2o29'17" 0o46'23" 1o46'27" 17o09'03"
Inclination of Equator to  the orbit N/A 0o 177o 23o27' 6o41' 23o50' 3o05' 26o24' 97o55' 28o48' 122o
Surface Temp (oC) 5800K -170 to 430 472 (882oF) -60 to 60 -170 to 130 -140 to 20 -130
cloud tops
-180@ cloud tops -220
cloud tops
-216@ cloud tops -230
Ave albedo N/A 0.1 0.76  0.37 0.07 0.16 0.51 0.61 0.66 0.62 0.5
Oblateness 0 0 0.034 0.01 0.06 0.10 0.027
Moons N/A 0 0 1  
The moon Luna
N/A 2 small 
Phobos 28x20km  
Deimos  
16x12km
16+  
4 Galilean
Io (inner) Europa  
Ganymede
Callisto (outermost)
22  
Titan  
Tethys  
Enceladus
15  
Miranda  (innermost) Ariel  
Umbrial  
Titania  
Oberon

Nereid  
Triton  
Galatea
1  
Charon
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