What is the number 1 planet?

The order of the planets in the solar system, starting nearest the sun and working outward is the following: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and then the possible Planet Nine.

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What is the 1st most beautiful planet?

The planet Saturn: truly massive and stunningly beautiful with its rings. It's also home to amazing moons like Titan. The planet Saturn is probably the best known and most beautiful planet in the Solar System.

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Who is the greatest planet?

Fifth in line from the Sun, Jupiter is, by far, the largest planet in the solar system – more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined.

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What is the order of the 9 planets?

The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury is closest to the Sun. Neptune is the farthest. Planets, asteroids, and comets orbit our Sun.

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What are the 12 planets called?

Planets in Our Solar System
  • Mercury. Mercury—the smallest planet in our solar system and closest to the Sun—is only slightly larger than Earth's Moon. ...
  • Venus. Venus spins slowly in the opposite direction from most planets. ...
  • Earth. ...
  • Mars. ...
  • Jupiter. ...
  • Saturn. ...
  • Uranus. ...
  • Neptune.

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What will the 9th planet be called?

What is its Name? Batygin and Brown nicknamed their predicted object "Planet Nine," but the actual naming rights of an object go to the person who actually discovers it. The name used during previous hunts for the long suspected giant, undiscovered object beyond Neptune is "Planet X."

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Which planet is the king of gods?

Jupiter is named after the Roman King of the Gods. It is slightly more than 5 times further from the Sun than Earth is. Jupiter also goes by the Greek Mythology name Zeus!

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Which planet is the weakest?

Of the planets in our solar system, the one with the weakest magnetic field is Mercury.

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Who is the king of all planets?

Planet Jupiter | Gas giant and King of planets.

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Is there a pink planet?

Named GJ 504b, the planet is made of pink gas. It's similar to Jupiter, a giant gas planet in our own solar system. But GJ 504b is four times more massive. At 460°F, it's the temperature of a hot oven, and it's the planet's intense heat that causes it to glow.

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Is there a purple planet?

A purple planet! Actually, the color suggestion is just speculation based on the planet's expected chemical composition. The planet, called WASP-104b, orbits 4 million km from its yellow dwarf parent star every 1.75 days.

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Why can't you stand on Saturn?

Saturn is made up mainly of hydrogen and helium, in both gas and liquid forms. You couldn't stand on Saturn, because there's no solid surface to stand on.

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What planets are named after gods?

Mercury was named after the Roman god of travel. Venus was named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Mars was the Roman god of War. Jupiter was the king of the Roman gods, and Saturn was the Roman god of agriculture.

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Is Mercury a male or female planet?

The male planets are Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn; Mercury and Uranus are neuter; Moon, Venus, Neptune, and Pluto are female (though Pluto is related to Mars despite its Dark Mother feminine archetype).

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Which planet is broken?

In 1953, Soviet Russian astronomer Ivan I. Putilin suggested that Phaeton was destroyed due to centrifugal forces, giving it a diameter of approximately 6,880 kilometers (slightly larger than Mars' diameter of 6,779 km) and a rotational speed of 2.6 hours.

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Which planet is very powerful?

Jupiter (Brihaspati) represents power in general, being large in wisdom, size, and strength. This planet is also seen as the teacher or guru of the gods because Brihaspati is a brahmin.

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What is the safest planet ever?

A: Besides Earth, Mars would be the easiest planet to live on. Mars has liquid water, a habitable temperature and a bit of an atmosphere that can help protect humans from cosmic and solar radiation. The gravity of Mars is 38% that of the Earth.

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What planet is god of Death?

At the time of Pluto's discovery, it was considered to be a planet (it is now classified as a dwarf planet). Being very cold and the farthest from the Sun, Pluto was named after the Roman god of death.

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Who is the daughter of Jupiter?

VENUS, the daughter of Jupiter and Dione, was at first the goddess of gardens (Met XIV.

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Is Jupiter or Zeus?

Zeus, in ancient Greek religion, chief deity of the pantheon, a sky and weather god who was identical with the Roman god Jupiter. His name clearly comes from that of the sky god Dyaus of the ancient Hindu Rigveda.

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Is Planet 9 a black hole?

Planet Nine is unnamed, unconfirmed, and unknown. We haven't been able to detect it, and we don't even know for sure that if we did spot it, it would even be a planet. It might be a special kind of black hole, or be made entirely of dark matter.

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Why did Pluto stop being a planet?

Pluto is now classified as a dwarf planet because, while it is large enough to have become spherical, it is not big enough to exert its orbital dominance and clear the neighborhood surrounding its orbit.

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What is the hottest planet?

Venus is the second planet from the Sun and Earth's closest planetary neighbor. Even though Mercury is closer to the Sun, Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system. Its thick atmosphere is full of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, and it has clouds of sulfuric acid.

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