Planets of the Solar System
Peter VanGorp
- Mercury
- Roman god of commerce, travel, and thievery
- Dictionary Definition:
- Mercury
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The smallest of the planets and the one nearest the sun,
having a sidereal period of revolution about the sun of
88.0 days at a mean distance of 58.3 million kilometers
(36.2 million miles) and a mean radius of approximately
2,414 kilometers (1,500 miles).
- Venus
- Roman goddess of love and beauty
- Dictionary Definition:
- Venus
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The second planet from the sun, having an average radius of
6,052 kilometers (3,760), a mass 0.815 times that of Earth,
and a sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 224.7
days at a mean distance of approximately...