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Sun

Surface temperature: 5,772 K


Mass: 1.989 × 10^30 kg
Distance to Earth: 149.6 million km
Gravity: 274 m/s²
Age: 4.603 billion years
Radius: 696,340 km

Name come from


The word sun comes from the Old English word sunne, which itself comes
from the older Proto-Germanic language's word sunnōn.

Mercury
Distance from Sun: 58 million km
Orbital period: 88 days
Length of day: 59d 0h 0m
Radius: 2,439.7 km
Mass: 3.285 × 10^23 kg (0.055 M⊕)
Gravity: 3.7 m/s²
Age: 4.503 billion yea

Name come from


Romans believed that gods and goddesses were in charge of everything on
Earth. Mercury is named after the messenger for their gods.

Venus
Orbital period: 225 days
Length of day: 243d 0h 0m
Radius: 6,051.8 km
Distance from Sun: 108.2 million km
Surface area: 460.2 million km²
Mass: 4.867 × 10^24 kg (0.815 M⊕)
Gravity: 8.87 m/s²

Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is a rocky planet with the
densest atmosphere of all the rocky bodies in the Solar System, and the
only one with a mass and size that is close to that of its orbital neighbor
Earth
Name come from
Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty

Earth
Age: 4.543 billion years
Distance from Sun: 149.6 million km
Radius: 6,371 km
Mass: 5.972 × 10^24 kg
Surface area: 510.1 million km²
Land area: 148.9 million km²
Population: 7.888 billion (2021)

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object
known to harbor life. This is enabled by Earth being a water world, the
only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all
of Earth's water is contained in its global ocean, covering 70.8% of
Earth's crust.

Name come from


Earth comes from the Old English words 'eor(th)e' and 'ertha

Mars

Gravity: 3.71 m/s²


Orbital period: 687 days
Distance from Sun: 227.9 million km
Length of day: 1d 0h 37m
Radius: 3,389.5 km
Coordinates: RA 14h 30m 50s | Dec -14° 44′ 5″
Mars is the fourth planet and the farthest terrestrial planet from the
Sun. The reddish color of its surface is due to finely grained iron(III) oxide
dust in the soil, giving it the nickname "the Red Planet''. Mars's radius is
second smallest among the planets in the Solar System at 3,389.5 km.
Name come from

Mars, the red planet, was named after this god of war.

Jupiter

Gravity: 24.79 m/s²


Radius: 69,911 km
Length of day: 0d 9h 56m
Distance from Sun: 778.5 million km
Mass: 1.898 × 10^27 kg (317.8 M⊕)
Coordinates: RA 2h 35m 42s | Dec +13° 44′ 23″

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar
System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times
that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, and slightly
less than one one-thousandth the mass of the Sun.

Name come from

seven bright objects in the sky: the Sun, the Moon and the five brightest
planets. They named them after their most important gods. Jupiter, the
largest planet, was named after the king of the Roman gods.

Uranus

Distance from Sun: 2.871 billion km


Length of day: 0d 17h 14m
Gravity: 8.87 m/s²
Radius: 25,362 km
Discovered: March 13, 1781
Discoverer: William Herschel

Climate
Uranus' planetary atmosphere, with a minimum temperature of 49K
(-224.2 degrees Celsius)
Neptune

Length of day: 0d 16h 6m


Discovered: September 23, 1846
Distance from Sun: 4.495 billion km
Gravity: 11.15 m/s²
Radius: 24,622 km

Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and the farthest IAU-recognized
planet in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest planet in the Solar System
by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is
17 times the mass of Earth, and slightly more massive than its near-twin
Uranus.

The planet is named after the Roman god of the sea

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