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Earth
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larger picture)
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| Earth
is the third planet from the Sun.
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weighs 6,580,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons and
has
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a
diameter of 7,926 miles.
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One
day on Earth is 24 hours long.
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average distance of Earth from the Sun is 93 million
miles.
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at times Earth is only 91,400,000 miles from the Sun |
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at other times it is actually 94,500,000 miles from the
Sun.
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reason is that the orbit is not a perfect circle, but an
ellipse.
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| Earth takes 365.2 days to orbit the Sun.
The
mean temperature on
Earth is 59 degrees
fahrenheit.
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