Facts about the Planets
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| Mercury | 1st Terrestrial Planet
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| Venus | 2nd Terrestrial Planet
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| Earth | 3rd Terrestrial Planet
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| Mars | 4th Terrestrial Planet
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| Jupitar | 1st Gaseous Planet
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| Saturn | 2nd Gaseous Planet
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| Uranus | 3rd Gaseous Planet
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| Neptune | 4th Gaseous Planet
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| Pluto | Possibly not a planet, but a moon of Neptunes or an asteroid
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| Mercury | 1/3 diamer of Earth
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| Mercury | 1/20 mass of Earth
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| Mercury | Less than 1/2 diameter of Earth
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| Mercury | Temperature ranges from Very Hot to Very Cold
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| Mercury | 1st of 2 planets with no moon
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| Mercury | Closest planet to the sun
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| Mercury | small planet with rocky craters
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| Mercury | 2nd smallest planet
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| Venus | Hottest planet
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| Venus | Covered with fast moving sulfuric acid clouds
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| Venus | Visable as a morning and evening star
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| Venus | Almost same size and mass as the Earth
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| Venus | Rotates in an opposite direction of other planets
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| Venus | Diameter is 7560 miles
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| Venus | Turns slowly: 243 earth days = 1 day on this planet
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| Venus | Shows phases when looked at through telescope
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| Earth | Diameter = 7980 miles
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| Earth | Planet with the densest body
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| Earth | Only planet that supports life
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| Mars | Mass is 1/10 of that of the Earths
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| Mars | Atmosphere is primarily carbon dioxide
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| Mars | Gravitational pull like the Earth
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| Mars | Red planet due to iron core
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| Mars | Dry, rocky, dusty, impact crater, frozen ground
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| Mars | Terrestrial planet with 2 moons
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| Mars | 1/2 size of the Earth
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| Jupiter | Largest planet
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| Jupiter | 318 X's the mass of the Earth
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| Jupiter | 11X's the diameter of the Earth
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| Jupiter | 3rd or 4th brightest object in the sky, after the Moon and Venus - Famous Red Spot
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| Jupiter | Primarily made up of gas
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| Jupiter | 5th planet from the sun
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| Jupiter | Appears to have bands of color: created by slight chemical and temperature differences
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| Jupiter | bands of color: light bands called Zones and dark ones called Belts
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| Saturn | 2nd largest planet
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| Saturn | Has 18 moons
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| Saturn | 9.4 X's the diameter of the Earth
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| Saturn | 95X's the mass of the Earth
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| Saturn | Has rings that consist of rock and ice
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| Uranus | 3rd largest planet
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| Uranus | Lays on side and rolls around the sun
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| Uranus | Mostly made up of methane gas
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| Uranus | Has extreme seasons
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| Uranus | Orbits on its side
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| Uranus | Frozen planet with a molten core
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| Uranus | Has 22 moons
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| Uranus | It is 4X's the diameter of the Earth
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| Uranus | Planet looks greenish in color from the Earth
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| Uranus | It is 14.5X's the mass of the Earth
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| Neptune | 4th largest planet
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| Neptune | Gasseus, giant, frigid blue
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| Neptune | 3.8X's the diameter of the Earth
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| Neptune | It is 17X's the mass of the Earth
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| Neptune | Gaseous planet with 2 moons
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| Neptune | Has a great dark spot in the southern hemisphere
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| Pluto | Has a strange oval shaped orbit
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| Pluto | smallest planet: 2/3 diameter of the Earth
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| Pluto | At times is closer to Neptune, making it the 8th planet
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| Pluto | Has 1 moon
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