What is the 2nd heaviest planet?

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest planet in our solar system.
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Which of the 3 planets is the heaviest?

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  • Eight planets have been discovered in our solar system.
  • The inner planets are those which are closest to the Sun. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are the inner planets. ...
  • The outer planets are farther from the Sun. ...
  • The heaviest planet is Jupiter, which is also the largest planet.
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What is the 3nd largest planet?

Solar System - Uranus. Uranus, the third largest planet in our solar system, may be the strangest because it spins on its side. That severe tilt to its rotational axis may result from a great collision long ago. As the seventh planet from the Sun, Uranus takes 84 years to complete an orbit.
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What is the 2nd lightest planet?

Closest to the sun, Mercury is the second smallest planet in our solar system.
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Is Mars the second largest planet?

Mars is the second smallest planet with a radius of 2111 miles (3397 km).
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What Colour is Saturn?

Viewed from Earth, Saturn has an overall hazy yellow-brown appearance. The surface that is seen through telescopes and in spacecraft images is actually a complex of cloud layers decorated by many small-scale features, such as red, brown, and white spots, bands, eddies, and vortices, that vary over a fairly short time.
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How many moons does Earth have 2021?

The simple answer is that Earth has only one moon, which we call “the moon”. It is the largest and brightest object in the night sky, and the only solar system body besides Earth that humans have visited in our space exploration efforts. The more complex answer is that the number of moons has varied over time.
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Which planet has Titan as a moon?

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an icy world whose surface is completely obscured by a golden hazy atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system. Only Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger, by just 2 percent. Titan is bigger than Earth's moon, and larger than even the planet Mercury.
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What planet is the coldest?

The coldest planet in our solar system on record goes to Uranus which is closer to the Sun and 'only' about 20 times further away from the Sun than the Earth is. The lowest temperature recorded there was minus 224 degrees Celsius.
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Can Saturn float on water?

Saturn could float in water because it is mostly made of gas. (Earth is made of rocks and stuff.) It is very windy on Saturn. Winds around the equator can be 1,800 kilometers per hour.
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Is Uranus bigger than Saturn?

Saturn is the second largest planet in our Solar System. It has a diameter of 120,536 km across the equator, and a surface area of 4.27 x 1010 km2. With a volume of 8.27 x 1014 km3, Saturn can hold 764 Earths inside. Uranus has a diameter of 51,118 km and a surface area of 8.1 x 109 km2.
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Is Venus the 2nd largest planet?

Venus is the sixth-largest planet in the Solar System, but it is the second-largest out of the terrestrial planets.
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Is the Sun heavier than Jupiter?

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun.
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Which is the fattest planet?

Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is the largest and the heaviest planet in our solar system.
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Which is the red planet?

Mars is known as the Red Planet. It is red because the soil looks like rusty iron. Mars has two small moons. Their names are Phobos (FOE-bohs) and Deimos (DEE-mohs).
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Does it rain on Titan?

While Earth rain falls at about 20 miles per hour (9.2 meters per second), scientists have calculated that rain on Titan falls at about 3.5 miles per hour (1.6 meters per second), or about six times more slowly than Earth's rain.
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Can you breathe Titan?

Humans can't breathe on Titan because there is no oxygen in Titan's atmosphere. Aside from the lack of oxygen in Titan's atmosphere, Titan's atmosphere is also too cold for humans to breathe without damaging themselves.
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Is Titans real?

Remember the Titans, based on the true story of T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Jerry Bruckheimer and Walt Disney Pictures bought the script based on the fact that it is a true story, but much of the film‟s content is fictional.
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Can a planet have 2 suns?

Can a planet really have two suns? While many things about Star Wars are purely fictional, it turns out that planets orbiting two or more stars is not one of them. In 2011, NASA embarked on the Kepler mission, exploring the Milky Way galaxy to find other habitable planets.
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What if the Sun disappeared for 1 second?

Eternal night would fall over the planet and Earth will start traveling into interstellar space at 18 miles per second. Within 2 seconds, the full moon reflecting the sun's rays on the dark side of the planet would also go dark.
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