THE SUN AND PLANETS.

Name. Sidereal period. Mean distance from Sun. Millions of miles. Diameter. Miles. Surface. Earth=1. Volume. Earth=1. Mass. Earth=1. Density. Earth=1. Axial Rotation. d. h. m. Force of gravity. Fall: Ft. in 1 sec. Velocity in orbit. Miles per hour
SUN ..... ..... 866,200 11,946 1,305,000 332,000 0.25 25 7 48 461
h. m. s.
MERCURY 88 days. 36 3,008 0.144 0.055 0.066 1.26 24 5 30 7 107,000
VENUS 225 ″ 67 7,480 0.891 0.841 0.782 0.92 23 21 23 14 78,000
EARTH 365 ″ 93 7,926 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.00 23 56 4 16 66,000
MARS 687 ″ 141 5,000 0.398 0.251 0.107 0.45 24 37 23 4 53,000
Minor Planets
Eros (433) 1.76 years. ..... 18 Eros is the nearest to the Sun of the Minor Planets, part of its orbit falling between the Earth and Mars.
Vesta (4) 3.6 ″ 219 214 Vesta is the largest of the Minor Planets.
Thule (279) 8.8 ″ 396 ..... Thule is the most distant from the Sun of the Minor Planets.
JUPITER 11.8 ″ 483 88,439 124 1,389 317 0.23 9 55 21 41 29,000
SATURN 29.4 ″ 886 75,036 89 848 94 0.11 10 29 17 18 21,000
URANUS 84.0 ″ 1782 30,875 15 59 14 0.25 ? 13 15,000
NEPTUNE 164.6 ″ 2792 37,205 21 103 17 0.17 ? 12 12,000