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  2. Test your knowledge with these 100 fascinating facts - AOL

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    These interesting facts will help you learn more about our planet, movies, languages, and animals. ... Interesting facts for kids. ... Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system.

  3. Solar System - Wikipedia

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    The orbits of Solar System planets are nearly circular. Compared to many other systems, they have smaller orbital eccentricity. [70] Although there are attempts to explain it partly with a bias in the radial-velocity detection method and partly with long interactions of a quite high number of planets, the exact causes remain undetermined. [70] [74]

  4. Mercury (planet) - Wikipedia

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    The planet's density is the second highest in the Solar System at 5.427 g/cm 3, only slightly less than Earth's density of 5.515 g/cm 3. [4] If the effect of gravitational compression were to be factored out from both planets, the materials of which Mercury is made would be denser than those of Earth, with an uncompressed density of 5.3 g/cm 3 ...

  5. Jupiter - Wikipedia

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    Jupiter has been called the Solar System's vacuum cleaner [217] because of its immense gravity well and location near the inner Solar System. There are more impacts on Jupiter, such as comets, than on any other planet in the Solar System. [218] For example, Jupiter experiences about 200 times more asteroid and comet impacts than Earth. [66]

  6. Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system, according to NASA. Jupiter’s radius is over 11 times the equatorial radius of the Earth.

  7. 135 Interesting Facts for Kids and Adults to Blow Your Mind - AOL

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    Interesting facts shown as lightbulbs on post-it notes. ... Interesting Facts for Kids. 66. Scotland's national animal is a unicorn. ... Venus is the only planet that spins clockwise.

  8. Formation and evolution of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    The Solar System travels alone through the Milky Way in a circular orbit approximately 30,000 light years from the Galactic Center. Its speed is about 220 km/s. The period required for the Solar System to complete one revolution around the Galactic Center, the galactic year, is in the range of 220–250 million years. Since its formation, the ...

  9. Uranus - Wikipedia

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    The planet's atmosphere has a complex layered cloud structure and has the lowest minimum temperature (49 K (−224 °C; −371 °F)) of all the Solar System's planets. It has a marked axial tilt of 82.23° with a retrograde rotation period of 17 hours and 14 minutes.