Some interesting facts about planets you should know !!!
1.) fact about the earth
The earth's rotation is gradually slowing. The deceleration is happening almost imperceptibly, at approximately 17 milliseconds per hundred years, although the rate at which it occurs is not perfectly uniform. This has the effect of lengthening our days, but it happens so slowly that it cloud be as much as 140 million years before the length of a day will have increased to 25 hours.
Amazing facts about planets :-1.) There are more trees on earth than there are stars in the milky way galaxy.
2.) Some scientists still believes that JUPITER is a failed star.
3.) The 6th planet on solar system SATURN is notable for it's amazing ring. Nobody knows how exactly formed. Some scientist believe they formed early in the solar system, other believe they are a recent phenomenon.
Saturn is a gas giant like JUPITER, and is mostly up of hydrogen and helium.
4.) You can't walk on JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS OR NEPTUNE because they have no solid surfaces.
5.) VENUS AND URANUS are the only planets that rotate clockwise. ( retrograde rotation )
6.) The wind on NEPTUNE is so fast that it breaks the sound barrier.
7.) PLUTO is smaller in size than RUSSIA.
8.) VENUS is the hottest planet in our solar system with a surface temperature of over 450 degrees celcius.
9.) URANUS only has 2 seasons- SUMMER AND WINTER. Each lasts 42 earth years.
10.) A day on the planet MERCURY is twice as long as it's year. MERCURY rotates very slowly but revolves around the SUN in slightly less than 88 days.
11.) MERCURY and VENUS have no moons, because they are nearest to the sun.
12.) Due to extreme pressure and temperature, it literally rains diamonds on NEPTUNE and URANUS.
13.) The MOON is the 5th largest natural satellite in the solar system.
14.) EARTH is the only planet not named after a GOD.
15.) The MOON rotates 10 miles per hour compared to the earth's rotation of 1000 miles per hour.
16.) Even though it is closest to the SUN, MERCURY has ice in it's craters.
17.) MARS 142 million miles from the sun. 24 hours and 37 minutes until the day is done. Named after the roman god of war.
18.) From the time it was discovered to the time it was denounced as a planet, PLUTO did not complete a single trip around the sun.
19.) JUPITER includes the four large moons called the galilean moons that were first discovered by galileo galilei in 1610.
20.) URANUS is often referred to as an ICE GIANT PLANET.
21.) The martian atmosphere is 61 times thinner than earth's and consist almost entirely of carbon-dioxide. Which makes up just 0.04% of the earth's atmosphere.
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