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written by David Williams

This site lists links to information on the planets, their satellites, and their rings, as well as to tables comparing the planets. Information includes facts like mass and volume, to equatorial/polar radii, ellipticity, escape velocity, geometric/bond albedo, orbital parameters, atmospheric composition, and much more.

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Astronomy - Solar System	- Informal Education - High School - Lower Undergraduate - Upper Undergraduate	- Reference Material = Nonfiction Reference - Dataset

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: Does not have a copyright, license, or other use restriction.
Courtesy of:: David R. Williams
Keywords:: planets, solar sysyem
Record Creator:: Date Metadata Instance was created October 3, 2003 by Benjamin Williams
Record Updated:: November 18, 2021 by Lyle Barbato
Other Collections:: The Nucleus

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Williams, D. (n.d.). Planetary Fact Sheets. Retrieved March 6, 2026, from https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html

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Williams, David. Planetary Fact Sheets. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html (accessed 6 March 2026).

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