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Question: (Listed in order of distance from the Sun)
#1
Mercury
 
#2
Venus
 
#3
Mars
 
#4
Jupiter
 
#5
Saturn
 
#6
Uranus
 
#7
Neptune
 
#8
Pluto
 
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DemPGH
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« on: February 16, 2014, 04:36:53 PM »

Jupiter's the most interesting, so I voted that, but Saturn is the most aesthetic, I think, followed closely by Neptune and Jupiter.

It's very likely raining gemstones and diamonds in the atmospheres of those gas planets due to atmospheric conditions and intense pressure. A thousand tons a year on Saturn?

Ahh, the old Uranus joke. Poor planet.
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« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2014, 11:26:23 AM »

Uranus is a fascinating planet - it has the coldest atmosphere of any planet in the solar system and it is the only planet to be tilted on its side so that one of its polar regions faces the Sun. Really interesting to ponder how that might have happened. Something hitting it has always been one of the leading theories, maybe when it was forming. I'd think something large enough to knock it over on its side now would run the risk of knocking it out of orbit.

It's also a very pretty pale blue.

No shouts for Venus? Searing heat and pressure dense enough to crush ordinary objects. I think that happened to the first probes that landed there although not sure.
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