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yuiyoshida

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3. Venus

Reply to Angry Dragon (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 01:41 PM

Jun 2015

So, Venus has the longest day of any planet in our solar system. It completes one rotation every 243 Earth days. Its day lasts longer than its orbit. It orbits the Sun every 224.65 Earth days, so a day is nearly 20 Earth days longer than its year.

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Where am I?? [View all] Angry Dragon Jun 2015 OP

Earth, silly. 7 days = 4.54 billion years Brother Buzz Jun 2015 #1

nope Angry Dragon Jun 2015 #2

Well then, how many angles can you fit on one thin Mercury head dime? Brother Buzz Jun 2015 #4

Venus yuiyoshida Jun 2015 #3

YES!! Angry Dragon Jun 2015 #5

I had help.... yuiyoshida Jun 2015 #6

good help is good to have Angry Dragon Jun 2015 #7

Absolutely! yuiyoshida Jun 2015 #8