Comparison of Planets

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L
1		Mercury	Venus	Earth	Mars	asteroid belt	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Pluto and the Kuiper belt	Comet
2	Gas or Rocky (Terrestrial) Planet	r	r	r	r	r	g	g	g	g	r
3	Age			4.5 billion		450 thousand years	4.5 billion years	4.5 billion years			4.5 billion years	varies
4	Crust (Plate Tectonics)	yes	yes	yes	yes	none	no	no	none			yes
5	Atmosphere	no	yes	79% nitrogen	95% CO2	no	yes, composed of ammonia crystals	yes, 96.3% hydrogen 3.3% helium 0.4% other gases	83% hydrogen, 15% helium	gas giant with thick atmosphere	nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide ice	No
6	# of Moons	no	no	1	2	none	66	62	27	13	5	none
7	Water content	none	once had	none	none	None	minimal water vapor in the clouds	minimal amounts under the cloud layer	none	none		none
8	Years to orbit Sun	88 days	225 days	1	687 days		11.86	29.7	84.02	164.8	248 years
9	Rings	none	none	none	none		4	1000+	yes	yes	currently unknown
10	Distance from Sun (AU)	.39 au	.72 au	1 au	141.5 million	2.7AU	4.95 AU	9.58 AU
11	Type of core (magnetic)	weak magnetic		yes, molten magum			yes	yes	yes	yes
12	Known life	none	possibly could have at some point	Obviously	possible micro organisms	none	no	no	none	none	none	none
13	Size (mass)	1/18th Earth's	.82 times that of Earth's			2.8×1021 to 3.2×1021 kilograms	318 times earths mass	95 time earths mass	8.683 e25 kg	1.0247 e26 kg	1.30900 * 1022 kilometers	nucleus-6 miles, tail-600,000 miles
14	Size (diametere)	4,878 km	12,102 km	12758 km	6786 km	varies: few-600			51118 km	49532 km	2190 km
15	Avg. Density		5.3 g/cm3	5.5	3.9 g/cm^3				1.27 g/cm ^3	1.64 g/cm^3
16	Brightness from sun			differs
17	Wind Speed		.3 to 1. m/s	differs	wind storms						-230 C	-267 C-100 C
18	Temperature Range	100K- 700K	ave. 700K	-127-136	-172- -72
19	Location in Solar System	closest to sun	2nd closest to sun	3 from sun		Between Mars and Jupiter
20	Available minerals/elements			ask fetter	iron
21	Other	has the highest ave. orbital speed of 48 km/s	actual surface isn't visible because blocked by dense clouds that reflect 70% of sunlight			Made up of: Carbon based rock, some are made of metals: nickel and iron
22	Other
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24	Team members	Leslie and Glenn	Leslie and Glenn			Alyssa Caryssa Sophie Chloe Sarah Stacy	Trevor, Brandon, and Brennan	Trevor, Brandon, and Brennan	Travis and Ben	Ben and Travis	Alyssa Caryssa Sophie Chloe Sarah Stacy	Alyssa Caryssa Sophie Chloe Sarah Stacy
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