Order of the planets by size (smallest to largest) If you were to order the planets by size from smallest to largest they would be Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter. Jupiter and Saturn are sometimes called the gas giants, whereas the more distant Uranus and...
Order of the planets by size (smallest to largest) If you were to order the planets by size from smallest to largest they would be Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter. Jupiter and Saturn are sometimes called the gas giants, whereas the more distant Uranus and...
Besides Pluto, there are 8 other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt that have 9 moons between them. Shown are each dwarf planet with it's moon, in order of moon size (largest to smallest). Note that these are all "almost certain" or "highly likely" to be dwarf planets. See also moons...
major planet,planet- (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellati...
It’s the nearest planet to the sun and is also the smallest planet in the solar system and takes around 88 days to complete one revolution (to be exact 88.97 days) which is the smallest time duration. Its size is slightly larger than the size of the moon of earth. It does not have...
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and is the smallest of the eight planets being only slightly larger than our moon. Mercury’s surface temperatures vary in extremes reaching day temperatures as high as 800°F (430°C) and dipping as low as -290°F (-180°C), lacking the atmosp...
In order to introduce some systematisation into our description of the contents of the Solar System, we shall start with the largest bodies and work our way down the size scale. This cannot be done perfectly as there is some overlap of sizes on neighbouring categories of body — for example...
The largest planet in the solar system is Jupiter, followed by Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars with the smallest being Mercury. The table below shows the size of the planet, how far it is from the Sun and how long it takes to complete a single orbit. ...
The most obvious difference between the terrestrial and the Jovian planets is their size. The largest terrestrial planet, Earth has a diameter only one quarter as great as the diameter of the smallest Jovian planet, Neptune, and its mass is only one seventeenth as great. Hence, the Jovian ...
The most obvious difference between the terrestrial and the Jovian planets is their size. The largest terrestrial planet, Earth has a diameter only one quarter as great as the diameter of the smallest Jovian planet, Neptune, and its mass is only one seventeenth as great. Hence, the Jovian pla...