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  2. List of Solar System objects by size - Wikipedia

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    This list contains a selection of objects 50 and 99 km in radius (100 km to 199 km in average diameter). The listed objects currently include most objects in the asteroid belt and moons of the giant planets in this size range, but many newly discovered objects in the outer Solar System are missing, such as those included in the following ...

  3. List of tallest mountains in the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    4.6 km on north face, 3.6 km on south face; [n 4] highest elevation (8.8 km) above sea level, as well as by wet and dry prominence (but not among the tallest from base to peak, and in distance to Earth's center Mt Chimborazo rises highest). Moon [n 5] Mons Huygens: 5.3 km (3.3 mi) [19] 0.31: impact: Formed by the Imbrium impact. Mons Mouton

  4. Venus - Wikipedia

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    Venus's equator rotates at 6.52 km/h (4.05 mph), whereas Earth's rotates at 1,674.4 km/h (1,040.4 mph). [ note 2 ] [ 153 ] Venus's rotation period measured with Magellan spacecraft data over a 500-day period is smaller than the rotation period measured during the 16-year period between the Magellan spacecraft and Venus Express visits, with a ...

  5. Astronomical unit - Wikipedia

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    Radius of the Sun (695 500 km, 432 450 mi, a hundred times the radius of Earth or ten times the average radius of Jupiter) — Light-minute: 0.12 — Distance light travels in one minute — Mercury: 0.39 — Average distance from the Sun — Venus: 0.72 — Average distance from the Sun — Earth: 1.00 —

  6. Jupiter and Venus conjunction will see planets ‘kiss’ for ...

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    At their closest point, Jupiter and Venus will be just half a degree apart – about the diameter of a full moon – despite being more than 600 million km (400 million miles) away from each other ...

  7. Geology of Venus - Wikipedia

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    According to data from the Pioneer Venus Orbiter altimeters, nearly 51% of the surface is located within 500 meters (1,600 feet) of the median radius of 6,052 km (3,761 mi); only 2% of the surface is located at elevations greater than 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the median radius.

  8. Orbit of Venus - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The low eccentricity and comparatively small size of its orbit give Venus the least range in distance between perihelion and aphelion of the planets: 1.46 million km. The planet orbits the Sun once every 225 days [ 3 ] and travels 4.54 au (679,000,000 km; 422,000,000 mi) in doing so, [ 4 ] giving an average orbital speed of 35 km/s ...

  9. Jupiter and Venus meet with moon during spectacular sunset - AOL

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