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Venus
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larger picture)
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| Venus
is the second planet from the Sun.
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weighs 5,370,000,000,000,000,000,000.000 tons and
has
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a diameter of 7,521 miles.
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One
day on Venus is 2,802 hours long.
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average distance of Venus from the Sun is 67.2 mil
lion miles.
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at times Venus is only 66,800,000 miles from the
Sun |
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at other times it is actually 67,700,000 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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| Venus
takes 224.7 days to orbit the Sun.
The
mean temperature on Venus is 867 degrees fahrenheit.
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