Venus is the only planet in the solar system that rotates
clockwise. All the other planets rotate anticlockwise. Venus (radius
3,760.4 miles) is similar to Earth (radius 3,963.19 miles) in size and
structure but spins very slowly. A day on Venus is 243 Earth days long.
Earth is the densest planet in the solar system and the only one not
named after a god.
Earth orbits the sun at an average speed of 66,629
mph (107 229 km/h). One year on earth is 365.24 days long. One day is 23
hours, 56 minutes and 4,06 seconds long. The extra day in a leap year
was introduced to compensate for the discrepancy in the Georgian
calendar. It’s easy to remember the order of the eight planets with this
line: My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nachos. The capital letters
stand for the order of the planets, starting closest to the sun:
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
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