8 results for “orbit”
Planets & the Solar System
Uranus and Neptune
orbit two planets that no one saw until the age of telescopes. They are not quite
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Planets & the Solar System
Comets, Asteroids and Pluto
orbits of Mars and Jupiter circle well over a million known asteroids, with countless more too small
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Planets & the Solar System
Jupiter
orbit Jupiter has 95 known moons, but four dominate: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, discovered by Galileo
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Planets & the Solar System
Mars
orbiting about one and a half times farther out than Earth. It is small, about half
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Planets & the Solar System
Mercury and Venus
orbiting at an average of 58 million kilometres, barely more than a third of Earth's distance
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Planets & the Solar System
Saturn
orbit, occasionally colliding and clumping. Gaps divide the rings into bands. The widest, the Cassini Division
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Planets & the Solar System
The Moon
orbit. Within perhaps a century that debris clumped together into the Moon. At first it hung
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Planets & the Solar System
The Sun
orbit from billions of kilometres away. A nuclear furnace At the centre of the Sun, the weight
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