Planet
The hottest planet in the solar system due to a runaway greenhouse atmosphere of carbon dioxide.
| Type | Planet |
|---|---|
| Distance from the Sun | 0.72 AU |
| Diameter | 12,104 km |
| Mass | 4.87 × 10²⁴ kg |
| Surface gravity | 8.87 m/s² |
| Temperature | 464°C |
| Moons | 0 |
| Rings | No |
| Orbital period | 225 days |
| Rotation period | 5,833 hours |
| Apparent magnitude | -4.14 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Discovered | Prehistoric |
Planets are massive enough to pull themselves round and to have cleared their orbit of other debris — the second part is the line the solar system's dwarf planets fall short of.
At 12,104 km across, Venus is 95 percent of the diameter of Earth.
Its mass is 82 percent of the mass of Earth.
It keeps an average distance of 0.72 AU from the Sun, so sunlight takes 6 minutes to reach it.
A single orbit takes 224.7 days.
An average temperature of 737 K works out at 464 degrees Celsius, warmer than the 15 degrees Earth averages.
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