Philips Atlas of the Universe

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto

Distance from max. 69.7 109 152 249 816 1507 3004 4537 7375

Sun, millions mean57.9 108.2 149.6 227.9 778 1427 2870 4497 5900

of km min. 45.9 107.4 147 206.7 741 1347 2735 4456 4425

Orbital period 87.97d 224.7d 365.3d 687.0d 11.86y 29.46y 84.01y 164.8y 247.7y

Synodic period, 115.9 583.92 — 779.9 398.9 378.1 369.7 367.5 366.7

days

Rotation period 58.646d 243.16d 23h 56m 04s 24h 37m 23s 9h 55m 30s 10h 13m 59s 17h 14m 16h 7m 6d 9h 17s

(equatorial)

Orbital eccentricity 0.206 0.00 0.017 0.093 0.048 0.056 0.047 0.009 0.248

Orbital inclination, ° 7.0 3.4 0 1.8 1.3 2.5 0.8 1.8 17.15

Axial inclination, °2 178 23.4 24.0 3.0 26.4 98 28.8 122.5

Escape velocity, km/s 4.25 10.36 11.18 5.03 60.22 32.26 22.5 23.9 1.18

Mass, Earth =1 0.055 0.815 1 0.11 317.9 95.2 14.6 17.2 0.002

Volume, Earth = 1 0.056 0.86 1 0.15 1319 744 67 57 0.01

Density, water =1 5.44 5.25 5.52 3.94 1.33 0.71 1.27 1.77 2.02

Surface gravity, 0.38 0.90 1 0.38 2.64 1.16 1.17 1.2 0.06

Earth =1

Surface temp., °C 
 427 
 480 
 22  23  150  180  214  220  230

Albedo 0.06 0.76 0.36 0.16 0.43 0.61 0.35 0.35 0.4

Diameter, km 4878 12,104 12,756 6794 143,884 120,536 51,118 50,538 2324

(equatorial)

Maximum magnitude 1.9 4.4 — 2.8 2.6 0.3 
5.6 
7.7 
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PLANETARY DATA

Asteroid belt

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

Pluto

Uranus

2735 to 3004 million km

Neptune

4456 to 4537 million km

Pluto

4425 to 7375 million km

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