What is the second planet form the sun.?
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Venus.\n\nThe order of the planets is... Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto (although on occasions Pluto is closer then Neptune).\n\nYou can remember the sequence using this mnemonic.. My Very Easy Method: Just Set Up Nine Planets.
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Don't forget the tenth planet "Xena"\n\nSome info on the planets:\n\nhttp://beaker.atspace.org/spaceglossplanets.htm
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venus?\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Venus+%28planet%29&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1
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Well, there's nine so far - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.  However, scientists have discovered other planets that orbit our Sun that are even further out than Pluto!  So there's a possibility that we may update our information involving the solar system sometime in the future....
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As of right now we don't know sizes of other planets outside our solar system.\n\n But, Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System. With an equatorial diameter of 143,884 km, (89,405 miles), it is as wide as more than 11 Earths stacked side by side. The planet also has the shortest period of rotation - Jupiter days last just under ten hours.
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The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
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Ganymede. It orbits Jupiter.
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The info in the last answer is seven years old! The two planets it refers to brought the total of known extra solar planets to 17. It is now 210 and we are finding them at the rate of over 20 a year.\n\nThe Extra-solar Planets Encyclopedia maintained by the Paris Observatory reports two further planets WASP-1 and WASP-2 that have been found since the "puffy planet" HAT-1-Pb was announced on September 14th 2006.\n\nIt laconically states: 26 September:  WASP-1b and WASP-2b : two new transiting exoplanets detected with SuperWASP and SOPHIE (Collier Cameron et al.) \n\nThe Wikipedia link and CIT link reveal: \n\nSuperWASP is the Wide Angle Search for Planets program\n\nStar: WASP-1 \nConstellation: Andromeda\nRight ascension: 00h 20m 40s \nDeclination: +31° 59′ 24″ \nSpectral type: F7V \nDistance of star: 1000 light years\nMass of Star; 1.15 x Mass of Sun\nPlanet b Garafia-1 \nPlanet Type: Hot Jupiter\nPlanet mass: 0.89 x Mass of Jupiter\nOrbital period: 2.51997 Earth days\nSemi-major axis: 0.0382 AU\nOrbital Eccentricity: 0  \n\nStar: WASP-2 \nConstellation: Delphinus\nRight ascension: 20h 30m 54s \nDeclination: +06° 25′ 46″ \nSpectral type: K1V\nDistance of star: 500 light years\nApparent Magnitude of Star: 11.98\nMass of Star; 0.79 x Mass of Sun\nPlanet: b\nPlanet Type: Hot Jupiter\nPlanet mass: 0.88 x Mass of Jupiter\nOrbital period: 2.152226 Earth days\nSemimajor axis: 0.0307 AU\nOrbital eccentricity: 0\n\nInformation seems scant. This much I could glean, but you might like to do a Google search for WASP-1 and WASP-2 to see what you can discover.
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Not sure how you want this question answered, but here goes:\n\nThe solar system consists of the Sun, the 10 planets, the asteroid belt, The Kuiper belt, and the Oort cloud. The Sun is a main sequence G2 star that contains 99.86% of the system's known mass. Its two largest orbiting bodies, Jupiter and Saturn, account for more than 90% of the remainder; the Oort Cloud might hold a substantial percentage, but as yet its existence is unconfirmed.\n\nIn broad terms, the charted regions of the solar system consist of the Sun and its planetary system: the eight bodies in relatively unique orbits commonly called planets or major planets and two belts of smaller objects, which can be called minor planets, planetoids, meteoroids, or planetesimals. Pluto, the ninth planet, is also considered a member of the outer belt, and its status is currently uncertain, particularly since the discovery of 2003 UB313 (see below). Most objects in orbit round the Sun all lie within the same shallow plane, called the ecliptic plane, and orbit in the same direction. Many are in turn orbited by moons, and the largest are encircled by planetary rings of dust and other particles.\n\nThe major planets are, in order, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Eight of the nine planets are named after or derived from gods and goddesses from Greco-Roman mythology.\n\nDistances within the solar system are measured most often in astronomical units, or AU. One AU is the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun, or 149 598 000 kilometres. Other units in common use include the gigametre (Gm, one million kilometres) and the terametre (Tm, one billion/milliard kilometres). Pluto is roughly 38 AU (5.9 Tm) from the Sun, while Jupiter lies at roughly 5.2 AU (778 Gm).\n\nUsing radiometric dating, scientists can estimate that the solar system is 4.6 billion years old. The oldest rocks on Earth are approximately 3.9 billion years old. Rocks this old are rare, as the Earth's surface is constantly being reshaped by erosion, vulcanism and plate tectonics. To estimate the age of the solar system scientists must use meteorites, which were formed during the early condensation of the solar nebula. The oldest meteorites (such as the Canyon Diablo meteorite) are found to have an age of 4.6 billion years, hence the solar system must be at least 4.6 billion years old.\n\nThe current theory of solar system formation is the nebular hypothesis, first proposed in 1755 by Immanuel Kant and independently formulated by Pierre-Simon Laplace. The nebular theory has been refined over many years and now has a great deal of evidence supporting it.\n\nTo briefly summarize, the nebular theory holds that the solar system was formed from the gravitational collapse of a gaseous cloud called the solar nebula. It had a diameter of 100 AU and was 2-3 times the mass of the Sun. Over time a disturbance (possibly a nearby supernova) squeezed the nebula, pushing matter inward until gravitational forces overcame the internal gas pressure and it began to collapse. As the nebula collapsed it began to spin faster to conserve angular momentum, and became warmer. As the competing forces associated with gravity, gas pressure, magnetic fields, and rotation acted on it the contracting nebula began to flatten into a spinning protoplanetary disk with a gradually contracting protostar at the center.\n\nGrains of dust (silicates and metals) and ice (hydrogen compounds) condensed from the gas, and began to accrete into larger and larger clumps, forming planetesimals. Inside the frost line, planetesimals were composed of rock and metal, because those are the only grains that can condense at those temperatures, and remained relatively small because they were only 0.6% the mass of the disk. The larger icy planetesimals beyond the frost line became massive enough to capture and hold onto helium and then hydrogen gases, which caused them to rapidly grow into jovian protoplanets.\n\nAft
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If you mean our Solar system (there's other suns with planets revolving around them) then our Solar System is in our Galaxy...The Milky Way.
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Venus.\n\nAnd since no one else is citing an authoritative source:\n\nhttp://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950815.html\n\n" Venus: Earth's Sister Planet"
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Other planets since all nine planets revolve around the sun so when you're on one side of the sun,other planets are probably on the other side!
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Planets: Venus and Mars\n\nMoons: Titan, Europe
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Venus, ain't it?\n...3rd rock from the sun = earth\n...MVE....whatever order those go in....  I believe there's only one V, so that makes it Venus....
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The new planet is the most distant object ever seen in orbit around the sun, even more distant than Sedna, the planetoid discovered almost 2 years ago. It is almost 10 billion miles from the sun and more than 3 times more distant than the next closest planet, Pluto and takes more than twice as long to orbit the sun as Pluto.
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Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. the asteroid belt is located between the 5th planet (Mars) and the planet Jupiter
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http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=SolarSys&Display=Overview\n\nCheck out this website, you can find all the info you need about each of the planets and the sun here.