Planets

8 CATALOGUED

The eight worlds of our Solar System, from a scorched ball of rock to a gas giant with a centuries-old storm.

RANKED LISTS
Largest▸
Jupiter — 0.98 R♃ · 69 911 km
TOP 8
PRIMER — 60 SECONDS

What counts as a planet

Since 2006: it orbits the Sun, it is round under its own gravity, and it has cleared its orbital neighbourhood. Pluto meets the first two and fails the third.

Two families

Four small rocky worlds inside the asteroid belt, four giants outside it — a split set by how close to the young Sun ice could survive.

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THE FAMOUS ONES

] 8 ENTRIES
NAME
CLASS
MASS
DISTANCE
MAG
CONSTELLATION
Jupiter★
Gas giant
1.00 M♃
5.202887 AU · Sun
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Saturn★
Gas giant
0.30 M♃
9.53668 AU · Sun
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Uranus★
Ice giant
14.54 M⊕
19.1892 AU · Sun
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Neptune★
Ice giant
17.15 M⊕
30.0699 AU · Sun
—
—
Earth★
Terrestrial planet
1.00 M⊕
1 AU · Sun
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Venus★
Terrestrial planet
0.82 M⊕
0.72333566 AU · Sun
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Mars★
Terrestrial planet
0.11 M⊕
1.52371 AU · Sun
—
—
Mercury★
Terrestrial planet
0.06 M⊕
0.38709927 AU · Sun
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ALL CLASSESTERRESTRIAL PLANET · 4GAS GIANT · 2ICE GIANT · 2
NAME▼
CLASS
MASS
DISTANCE
MAG
CONSTELLATION
Venus★
Terrestrial planet
0.82 M⊕
0.72333566 AU · Sun
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—
Uranus★
Ice giant
14.54 M⊕
19.1892 AU · Sun
—
—
Saturn★
Gas giant
0.30 M♃
9.53668 AU · Sun
—
—
Neptune★
Ice giant
17.15 M⊕
30.0699 AU · Sun
—
—
Mercury★
Terrestrial planet
0.06 M⊕
0.38709927 AU · Sun
—
—
Mars★
Terrestrial planet
0.11 M⊕
1.52371 AU · Sun
—
—
Jupiter★
Gas giant
1.00 M♃
5.202887 AU · Sun
—
—
Earth★
Terrestrial planet
1.00 M⊕
1 AU · Sun
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