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The listed objects currently include most objects in the asteroid belt and moons of the giant planets in this size range, but many newly discovered objects in the outer Solar System are missing, such as those included in the following reference. [58] Asteroid spectral types are mostly Tholen, but some might be SMASS.
A size comparison of the planets in the Kepler-37 system and objects in the Solar System ... All planets listed are smaller than Earth and Venus, ... Mercury: 0.3826 ...
Mercury. Mercury-crossing minor planets; Venus. Venus-crossing minor planets. 524522 Zoozve, Venus' quasi-satellite; Earth. ... or list of Solar System objects by size.
Venus to scale among the Inner Solar System planetary-mass objects beside the Sun, arranged by the order of their orbits outward from the Sun (from left: Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars and Ceres) Venus is one of the four terrestrial planets in the Solar System, meaning that it is a rocky body like Earth.
Mercury: Caloris Montes: ≤ 3 km (1.9 mi) [2] [3] 0.12: impact [4] Formed by the Caloris impact: Venus: Skadi Mons (Maxwell Montes massif) 6.4 km (4.0 mi) [5] (11 km above mean) 0.11: tectonic [6] Has radar-bright slopes due to metallic Venus snow, possibly lead sulfide [7] Maat Mons: 4.9 km (3.0 mi) (approx.) [8] 0.081: volcanic [9] Highest ...
Compared to Mercury, the Moon and other such bodies, Venus has very few craters. In part, this is because Venus's dense atmosphere burns up smaller meteorites before they hit the surface. The Venera and Magellan data agree: there are very few impact craters with a diameter less than 30 kilometres (19 mi), and data from Magellan show an absence ...
By comparison, the angular size of the Sun as seen from Mercury ranges from 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 to 2 degrees across. [116] At certain points on Mercury's surface, an observer would be able to see the Sun peek up a little more than two-thirds of the way over the horizon, then reverse and set before rising again, all within the same Mercurian day.
According to the IAU's explicit count, there are eight planets in the Solar System; four terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) and four giant planets, which can be divided further into two gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) and two ice giants (Uranus and Neptune). When excluding the Sun, the four giant planets account for more than ...