Mercury
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Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, orbiting the Sun once every 88 days. It has a large iron core, which generates a magnetic field about 1% as strong as that of the Earth.
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Venus
Venus the 'bright beauty' is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It is the brightest natural object in the night sky, except for the Moon.
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Earth
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Earth is the third planet from the Sun and is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System, in both diameter and mass.
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. It is also referred to as the "Red Planet" because of its reddish appearance as seen from Earth.
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Saturn
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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System. It was named after the Roman god Saturnus, equated to the Greek Kronos and the Babylonian Ninurta. The day in the week Saturday gets its name from this planet.
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Neptune
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Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of the sea. Its astronomical symbol is a stylized version of the god Neptune's trident.
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Jupiter
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Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is two and a half times as massive as all of the other planets in our solar system combined. Jupiter, along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, is classified as a gas giant.
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Uranus
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Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and the third-largest and fourth-most massive planet in the solar system. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky, the father of Kronos (Saturn) and grandfather of Zeus (Jupiter). Uranus was the first planet discovered in modern times.
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Pluto
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Pluto, also designated 134340 Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System (after Eris) and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun.
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