Trivia : Item Teasers

Trivia are facts that can be amusing although they are mostly knowledge that we can do without. Here, we have compiled some of them.

Trivia retrieved for Solar System (3 found)

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Venus has the longest day of any planet in our solar system. It completes one rotation every 243 Earth days.

NOTE: Venus completes one 360° rotation on its axis every 243 Earth days (formally called a sidereal day Glossary The sidereal day is the time it takes for the Earth to complete one rotation about its axis with respect to the ‘fixed’ stars. By fixed, we mean that we treat the ...). This rotation is longer than the time it takes Venus to orbit the Sun at 224.7 Earth days.

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The average density of Saturn is 0.687 g/cm3 which is less than that of water (1 g/cm or 1000kg/m3).

NOTE: This is because Saturn is made up largely of hydrogen and helium even with a (small) solid core of nickel, iron and rock (compounds of silicon and oxygen). Hydrogen and helium are mostly in liquid form. Liquid metallic hydrogen (1.15 g/cm3) surrounds the core followed by a mixture of liquid hydrogen (0.0708 g/cm3 or 70.8 kg/m3) and liquid helium (0.125 g/cm3). The outermost layer is gaseous. Saturn is the only planet in the Solar System that is less dense than water.

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Scientists believe that diamond rains occur on Neptune and Uranus due to high levels of hydrocarbon and pressure.

Published on: 13 Feb 2019 2124.
Last updated: 13 Feb 2019 2124.