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  2. Orbit of Venus - Wikipedia

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    The distance between Venus and Earth varies from about 42 million km (at inferior conjunction) to about 258 million km (at superior conjunction). The average period between successive conjunctions of one type is 584 days – one synodic period of Venus. Five synodic periods of Venus is almost exactly 13 sidereal Venus years and 8 Earth years ...

  3. Venus - Wikipedia

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    Venus may have formed from the solar nebula with a different rotation period and obliquity, reaching its current state because of chaotic spin changes caused by planetary perturbations and tidal effects on its dense atmosphere, a change that would have occurred over the course of billions of years. The rotation period of Venus may represent an ...

  4. Observations and explorations of Venus - Wikipedia

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    The planet's period of retrograde motion is 20 days on either side of the inferior conjunction. In fact, through a telescope Venus at greatest elongation appears less than half full due to Schröter's effect first noticed in 1793 and shown in 1996 as due to its thick atmosphere. Venus in daylight at 5 p.m. in the southern hemisphere ...

  5. Orbital period - Wikipedia

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    The orbital period (also revolution period) is the amount of time a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object. In astronomy , it usually applies to planets or asteroids orbiting the Sun , moons orbiting planets, exoplanets orbiting other stars , or binary stars .

  6. Solar System - Wikipedia

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    Orbital period ~230 million years [10] ... Venus is approximately 0.33 AU farther out from the Sun than Mercury, whereas Saturn is 4.3 AU out from Jupiter, and ...

  7. Did Venus ever have oceans? Scientists have an answer - AOL

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    "Two very different histories of water on Venus have been proposed: one where Venus had a temperate climate for billions of years, with surface liquid water, and the other where a hot early Venus ...

  8. Transit of Venus - Wikipedia

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    During the Earth's 243 sidereal orbital periods, which total 88,757.3 days, Venus completes 395 sidereal orbital periods of 224.701 days each, which is equal to 88,756.9 Earth days. This period of time corresponds to 152 synodic periods of Venus. [2]

  9. Five planets will line up in the skies above WA state. Here’s ...

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    Mercury, Venus, Mars, ... an optical illusion. The planets of the solar system all move around the same orbital plane, ... Family of 3 saves 75-year-old woman from overturned car in canal.