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EARTH
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Orbital parametres | ||||
Distance from Sun (semimajor axis) | 149.6 million km | (1.0 AU) | ||
Minimum distance (perihelion) | 147.1 million km | (0.98 AU) | ||
Maximum distance (aphelion) |
152.1 million km | (1.02 AU) | ||
Orbital eccentricity | 0.0167 | |||
Length of year (orbital period) | 365.24 days | |||
Length of day (rotational period) | 23.935 hours | |||
Average orbital velocity | 29.79 km/s | |||
Orbital inclination | 0.0 degrees | More about planetary orbits | ||
Physical Properties | ||||
Equatorial radius | 6,378 km | |||
Mass | 5.974 x1024 kg | |||
Volume | 108.32 x1010 km3 | |||
Average density |
5,520 kg/m3 |
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Oblateness | 0.0034 | |||
Escape velocity | 11.2 km/s | |||
Solar irradiance: | 1,380 Watts/m2 | |||
Surface temperature | 204 to 331 K | (-69 to 58o C) | ||
Albedo | 0.367 | More about planetary orbits | ||