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SYNOPTICAL TABLES
Volume (Earth's = 1), | 0.1364 |
Mass (Earth's = 1), | 0.1324 |
Density (Earth's = 1), | 0.972 |
Diameter (Earth's = 1), | 0.519 |
Diameter in miles, | 4070 |
Diameter, apparent, mean, | 5″.8 |
Diameter, apparent, minimum, | 3″.3 |
Diameter, apparent, maximum. | 23″-5 |
Gravity (Earth's = 1), | 0.49 |
In one second of time bodies fall, in feet, | 7.9 |
Time of rotation on axis, | 24h. 37m. 22s. |
Revolution, sidereal, in days, | 686.97945 |
Revolution, synodical. | 779.836 |
Light and heat from Sun (Earth's = 1), | 0.43 |
Polar less than equatorial diameter. | 1-16th |
Distance from the Sun, mean, in miles, | 145,750,000 |
Distance from the Sun, mean, (Earth's = 1), | 1.523691 |
Distance from the Sun,maximum, | 1.665779 |
Distance from the Sun,minimum. | 1.381602 |
Eccentricity of orbit (semi-axis major = 1) | 0.93258 |
Eccentricity of orbit, annual increase, | 0.00000090176 |
Longitude of perihelion, | 332° 23′ 56″.6 |
Longitude annual increase, | 15″-8 |
Longitude ascending node. | 48° 0′ 3″-5 |
Inclination of orbit to ecliptic, | 2″-8 |
Inclination of orbit to ecliptic, annual decrease. | 0″.014 |
Mean daily motion in orbit. | 31′ 26″-7 |
Inclination of axis to the ecliptic, | 59° 41′ 49″ |
Greatest arc of retrogradation, | 19° 35′ |
Edge of south polar spot from pole in winter, | 35° |
Edge of south polar spot from pole in summer. | 5° |
Brightness of polar spots (mean brightness = 1), | 2 |