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Orbital Relationship list
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| Mercury |
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Planet | Sun | 1 |
Mercury (pronounced ) is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system (since Pluto was re-labelled as a dwarf planet), orbit the Sun once every 88 days. Mercury is bright when viewed from Earth, ranging from −2.0 to 5.5 in apparent...
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| Sun |
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The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter (including other planet, asteroid, meteoroid, comet, and dust) orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about 99.8% of the Solar System's mass. Energy from the Sun...
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| Venus |
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Planet | Sun |
Venus (pronounced ) is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love. It is the brightest natural object in the night sky, except for the Moon, reaching an...
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| Earth |
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Location | Sun | 3 |
Earth (pronounced ) is the third planet from the Sun. Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planet in the Solar System in diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the Earth, Planet Earth, the World, and Terra.
Home to millions of...
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| Mars |
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Planet | Sun | 4 |
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. It is also referred to as the "Red Planet" because of its reddish appearance.
Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere,...
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| Jupiter |
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Jupiter (pronounced ) is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is two and a half times as massive as all of the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant, along with...
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| Saturn |
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Planet | Sun |
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn, along with Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, is classified as a gas giant. Together, these four planets are sometimes referred to as the...
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| Neptune |
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Planet | Sun |
Neptune ( AmE: ]) is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth largest planet by diameter, and the third largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin...
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| Uranus |
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Planet | Sun |
Uranus ( or ) is the seventh planet from the Sun and the third-largest and fourth-most massive planet in the solar system. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky (Uranus, ), the father of Kronos (Saturn) and grandfather of Zeus ...
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| Pluto |
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Location | Sun |
Pluto (pronounced , from , ), formally designated '(134340) Pluto''', is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System (after Eris) and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun. Originally classified as a planet, Pluto...
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| Moon |
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Celestial Object | Earth | 1 |
The Moon is the earth's companion satellite, though some astronomers believe that it approaches being a planet in its own right. The Moon is large enough for its gravity to affect the Earth, stabilising its orbit and producing the regular ebb and...
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| Phobos |
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Location | Mars | 1 |
Phobos ( -bəs, or as Greek Φόβος) (systematic designation: ) is the larger and closer of Mars' two moon (the other being Deimos). It is named after the Greek god Phobos (which means "fear"), a son of Ares (Mars). A small, irregularly shaped object,...
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Celestial Object | Mars | 2 |
Deimos ( -məs, also -məs as in Greek Δείμος), is the smaller and outer of Mars’ two moons (the other being Phobos). It is named after Deimos, a figure representing dread in Greek Mythology. Its systematic designation is .
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| Galactic Center |
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The Galactic Center is the rotational center of the Milky Way galaxy. It is located about 7.6 kiloparsecs (24,800 LY) away from the Earth, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, where the Milky Way appears brightest. There is a suspected...
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| Io |
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Celestial Object | Jupiter | 5 |
Io ( -oe, or as Greek Ἰώ [iː.ɔɔ̗]) is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter and, with a diameter of 3,642 kilometers, the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System. It was named after Io, a priestess of Hera that became one of the lovers...
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| 23P/Brorsen-Metcalf | Celestial Object |
Comet Brorsen-Metcalf is a periodic comet in our solar system that was first discovered by Theodor Brorsen (Altona, Germany) on July 20, 1847, and again by Kaspar Schweizer (Moscow) on August 11, 1847, the prediction was made it would return between...
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| 1543 Bourgeois | Celestial Object |
1543 Bourgeois (1941 SJ) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on September 21, 1941 by Delporte, E. at Uccle.
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| 11149 Tateshina | Celestial Object |
11149 Tateshina (1997 XZ9) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on December 5, 1997 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.
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| Altair |
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Altair (α Aql / α Aquilae / Alpha Aquilae / Atair) is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the nighttime sky, at visual magnitude 0.77. A groundbreaking study with the Palomar Testbed Interferometer...
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| Epsilon Ursae Majoris |
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Epsilon Ursae Majoris (ε UMa / ε Ursae Majoris) is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Major (despite its Bayer designation being merely "epsilon"), and at magnitude 1.76 is the thirty-first brightest star in the sky. It also has the...
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| Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 |
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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9, formally designated D/1993 F2) was a comet that collided with Jupiter in 1994, providing the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of solar system objects. This generated a large amount of coverage in...
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| Mizar |
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Mizar (ζ UMa / ζ Ursae Majoris) is a star in the constellation Ursa Major and is the second star from the end of the Big Dipper's handle. The name comes from the Arabic ميزر mi'zar, meaning a waistband or girdle. Mizar's apparent magnitude is 2.23...
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| Spica |
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Spica (also known as α Vir / α Virginis / Alpha Virginis) is the brightest star in the constellation Virgo, and the 15th brightest star in the nighttime sky. It is 260 light year distant from Earth. A blue giant, it is a variable of the Beta Cephei...
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| Thuban | Star |
Thuban (α Dra / α Draconis / Alpha Draconis) is a star (or star system) in the constellation of Draco. A relatively inconspicuous star in the night sky of the Northern Hemisphere, it is historically significant as having been the north pole star in...
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| 52 Europa | Asteroid |
52 Europa is an asteroid. It has a diameter of 301 km, and was discovered on February 4, 1858 by H. Goldschmidt. It is named after Europa, one of Zeus's conquests in Greek mythology. Europa is the seventh largest asteroid by volume and the sixth...
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| 243 Ida |
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243 Ida ( eye'-də) is a Main belt asteroid that was imaged by the Galileo spacecraft on August 28, 1993. It was the first binary asteroid to be discovered and is a member of the Koronis family of asteroids.
Ida was discovered by Johann Palisa on...
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| 588 Achilles | Asteroid |
588 Achilles is an asteroid discovered on February 22, 1906 by the German astronomer Max Wolf. It was the first of the Trojan asteroid to be discovered, and is named after Achilles, the fictional hero from the Iliad. It orbits in the L Lagrangian...
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| Alpha Arietis | Star |
Alpha Arietis (α Ari / α Arietis) is the brightest star in the constellation Aries. It also has the traditional names Hamal and El Nath. Its Flamsteed designation is 13 Arietis, but this is very rarely used because it is a bright star with a Bayer...
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| HE0107-5240 | Star |
|-! style="background-color: #FFFFC0;" colspan="2" | Astrometry|- style="vertical-align: top;"| Spectral type | K5+III/dM2 V |- style="vertical-align: top;"| Apparent magnitude | 15.86 |- style="vertical-align: top;"| Distance | 36.000 Ly
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| Eta Canis Majoris | Star |
Eta Canis Majoris (η CMa / η Canis Majoris) is a star in the constellation Canis Major. It also has the traditional name Aludra.
Aludra shines brightly in the skies in spite of a large distance from Earth due to being intrinsically many times...
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| Beta Tauri | Star |
Beta Tauri (β Tau / β Tauri) is the second brightest star in the constellation Taurus, with apparent magnitude 1.7. Because it is on the boundary of Taurus with Auriga, it also has the redundant Bayer designation Gamma Aurigae (γ Aur), which is...
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| Beta Arietis | Star |
Beta Arietis (β Ari / β Arietis) is a star in the constellation Aries, it is the Ram's second horn. It also has the traditional name Sharatan (or Sheratan or Sheratim), and the Flamsteed designation 6 Arietis.
Al Sharatan means "the two signs", a...
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| 141 Lumen | Asteroid |
141 Lumen is a dark (C-type), large rocky asteroid 130 km in diameter orbiting in the Main belt near the Eunomia family of asteroids. It is not, however, physically related to the group, being of the wrong spectral class. Yet, NASA continues to...
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| Teegarden's star | Star |
Teegarden's Star, also known as SO025300.5+165258, is a star in the constellation Aries which was found in 2003 to have a very large proper motion (5.06±0.03 arcsec/year). Only seven stars with such large proper motions are currently known.
It...
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