Facts about the Earth

• The Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing.
• The Earth was once believed to be the centre of the universe.
• Earth has a powerful magnetic field.
• There is only one natural satellite of the planet Earth.
• Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
• The Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System.

The crust is made up of huge blocks of rock that move around the Earth’s surface very slowly – as slowly as your fingernails grow. The movement of these plates over millions of years causes continents to split apart and smash together. These slow currents push the plates of rock around at the surface.

Earth is located in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way (called the Orion Arm) which lies about two-thirds of the way out from the center of the Galaxy. Here we are part of the Solar System – a group of eight planets, as well as numerous comets and asteroids and dwarf planets which orbit the Sun.

Earth

A 2015 review concluded that the exoplanets Kepler-62f, Kepler-186f and Kepler-442b were likely the best candidates for being potentially habitable. These are at a distance of 990, 490 and 1,120 light-years away, respectively.

Mercury

According to the International Astronomical Union, the organization charged with naming all celestial bodies and deciding on their statuses, Pluto is still not an official planet in our solar system. Soon after Pluto was discovered in 1930, it was designated a planet, the ninth in our solar system.

Sagittarius

Now, before moving further to the retrograde planets 2020 dates and the impacts they will bring forward, let us discover what the phenomenon retrograde actually is….Retrograde planets 2020 Dates.

Kuiper Belt

At its most distant, when the two bodies are on the opposite sides of the sun from one another, Pluto lies 4.67 billion miles (7.5 billion kilometers) from Earth. At their closest, the two are only 2.66 billion miles (4.28 billion km) apart.

9.5 years

Is Pluto or the Sun Closer to Earth? The Sun is much more closer to Earth than Pluto. Even when Pluto makes its closest approach to the Sun, it is still farther away from us than the Sun.

Our solar system is so big it is almost impossible to imagine its size if you use ordinary units like feet or miles. The distance from Earth to the Sun is 93 million miles (149 million kilometers), but the distance to the farthest planet Neptune is nearly 3 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers).

What is the Farthest Known Object From Earth? Update 02/03/16: Here are the newest candidates (as of September and May 2015 respectively) for farthest galaxy yet detected. EGS8p7 at more than 13.2 billion light years away, and EGS-zs8-1 at 13.1 billion light years away.

In order of distance from the sun they are; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto, which until recently was considered to be the farthest planet, is now classified as a dwarf planet. Additional dwarf planets have been discovered farther from the Sun than Pluto.

Here are the planets listed in order of their distance from the Sun:

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. An easy mnemonic for remembering the order is “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles.”
• Mercury:
• Venus:
• Earth:
• Mars:
• Jupiter:
• Saturn:
• Uranus: