Monday, June 14, 2010

VENUS


Venus is the second planet near the sun. It has an equatorial radious about 6,052 km. The distance of Venus from the sun is 108,200,000 Km, which is not as far as other planet such has Uranus or Neptune.

Venus take 243 Earth days to turn the planet (rotation), and takes 224 days to do turn in the sun (translation).

The atmosphere of Venus is very dense and It has more from 120 degrees to 470 degrees.

Some of curiosities of Venus are:

  • Venus is the name of a Rom an goddess of love and fertility.
  • After moon is the most havenly body that shines at night.
  • Venus rotates at 35 Km/sec.
  • There aren't natural satellites.





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