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I am looking for general information on our solar system for an assignment. I am looking for information such as mass, radius, position (with respect to the sun), etc. of each planet in our solar system. Anyone know where i can find this information on the web?
 
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MillerGenuine said:
I am looking for general information on our solar system for an assignment. I am looking for information such as mass, radius, position (with respect to the sun), etc. of each planet in our solar system. Anyone know where i can find this information on the web?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune

Good enough?
 
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FlexGunship said:
Ouch. I wonder how much that anachronistic domain name cost!

If you go to the site, on the title bar, they have "crossed out the 9" and "scrawled in an 8".
 
Janus said:
If you go to the site, on the title bar, they have "crossed out the 9" and "scrawled in an 8".

Oh, I checked it out. It's a slick little site. But... the domain... that costs money. And now it's obsolete (maybe not the site... just the domain).
 

Probably should have been the first place I searched..had all the info i need. thanks


A good starting place:

http://nineplanets.org/. Check the appendices.

Also had more than enough info for me.

Thanks to you both.
 
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MillerGenuine said:
Probably should have been the first place I searched..had all the info i need. thanks

Incidentally, are you aware that your username is a draught beer?
 
Radrook said:
So how many so called dwarf planets do we have now?

There's 5 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet" that are acknowledged by the IAU, however there are estimates that at least another 40 known objects suit the description of a dwarf planet, and that there could be as many as 200 still left in the Kuiper belt and 2000 beyond it.
 
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