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Major Planets of the Solar System
Planet	Distance from the sun	Period of revolution	Period of rotation	Mass	Diameter	Number of confirmed satellites
Mercury	0.39	88 days	59 days	0.06	0.38	0
Venus	0.72	225 days	243 days	0.82	0.95	0
Earth	1	365 days	24 hours	1	1	1
Mars	1.52	687 days	25 hours	0.11	0.53	2
Jupiter	5.20	12 years	10 hours	317.89	11.19	63
Saturn	9.54	29 years	10 hours	95.15	9.44	48
Uranus	19.2	84 years	18 hours	14.54	4.10	27
Neptune	30.06	165 years	18 hours	17.23	3.88	13

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