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Time The clock face is divided The hands move down 11 1212 1 11 1212 1
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minutes, and seconds. A 24 hours in a full day. 11 12 1 direction “clockwise.” 9 8 4 3 9 8 4 3
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tell what time of day it is. The hour hand shows 9 3
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the time is exactly
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The planets Orbit time
There are eight planets in our Planet Distance Width around Day Number
solar system, but they are all name from the sun the sun length of moons
very different. Here you can
compare them—the days and 36 million miles 3,032 miles
hours given are equal to the Mercury (58 million km) (4,879 km) 88 days 59 days 0
time they take on Earth.
Venus 67 million miles 7,521 miles 225 days 243 days 0
(108 million km) (12,104 km)
93 million miles 7,926 miles
Earth 1 year 24 hours 1
(150 million km) (12,756 km)
243 Mars 142 million miles 4,220 miles 1 year 322 days 25 hours 2
(6,792 km)
(228 million km)
Earth days in
a single day Jupiter 484 million miles 88,846 miles 11 years 315 days 10 hours At least 67
(142,984 km)
on Venus. (778 million km)
887 million miles 74,898 miles
Saturn (1,427 million (120,536 km) 29 years 163 days 11 hours At least 62
km)
1,784 million 31,763 miles
Uranus miles (51,118 km) 84 years 6 days 17 hours At least 27
(2,871 million
km)
2,795 million 30,775 miles
Neptune miles (49,528 km) 163 years 289 days 16 hours At least 14
(4,498 million
km)
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