Planetary record breakers.
Contents Tallest mountain for each planet, planet size, largest moon for each planet, longest days, hot and cold, biggest crater longest year
This website lists some of record breaking feats of the planets, and moons of our solar system .
Tallest mountain for each planet, biggest crater, longest days,
As we all know the ten known planets of solar system are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and the recently discovered 2003 UB313, which obviously I have no record breaking information on as it has not been explored in sufficient detail yet
Here is my list of record breakers
Largest mountains in each planet and moons in the solar system
| Planet | Name of mountain | Height |
| Mars | Olympus Mons, Tharsis bulge, | 27 km |
| Earth | Mount Everest, Asia, | 9 KM from sea level |
| Venus | Maxwell Montes, Lakshmi Planum | 11km |
| Earth's Moon | Beta, Leibnitz Range | 36,000 feet |
| Io A moon of Jupiter | Boosaule Montes | 16 km |
| Europa moon of jupiter | ||
| Mercury | ||
| Ganymede |
| Planet | Size diameter at equator |
| Mercury | 4879.4 km |
| Venus | 12,103.7 km |
| Earth | 12,756 km |
| Mars | 6,804.9 km |
| Jupiter | 143,000 km |
| Saturn | 120,000 km |
| Uranus | 51,118 km |
| Pluto | 2306 km |
| Neptune | 49,528 km |
| Planet | Number of known moons (Open to debate due to classification of moon or sattelite) | Largest Moon |
| Mercury | 0 | |
| Venus | 0 | |
| Earth | 1 | The Moon 3642 km |
| Mars | 2 | Phobos 22.2km |
| Jupiter | 63 | Ganymede 5262 km |
| Saturn | 45 | Titan 5150 km |
| Uranus | 27 | Titania 1580 km |
| Pluto | 3 | Charon 1172 kilometers |
| Neptune | 13 | Triton 2700 km |
| Planet | Length of day |
| Mercury | 56 Earth days |
| Venus | 243 days |
| Earth | 1 day |
| Mars | 1 day |
| Jupiter | 9.8 hours |
| Saturn | 10.2 days |
| Uranus | 42 year |
| Pluto | 6.3 days |
| Neptune | 19.1 days |
Hottest and coldest planet surface (Typical temperatures not record temperatures)
| Planet | Usual daily hottest temperature | Usual daily coldest temperature |
| Planet Coldest temperatures
for each planet Pluto - 230 Uranus -223 Neptune 220 Mercury 200 Saturn 160 Jupiter 145 Mars 140 Earth 89 Venus 464 Sun 5500 | ||
| Biggest crater | |
| Moon | South Pole-Aitken basin 2500 kilometers in diameter |
| Venus | Mead Crater 280 Km |
| Earth | Vredefort crater 300 KM |
| Mars | Hellas Planitia 2100 KM |
| Planet | Length of year |
| Mercury | 88 Earth days |
| Venus | 225 Earth days |
| Earth | 1 year |
| Mars | 2.11 Earth years |
| Jupiter | 11.9 Earth years |
| Saturn | 29.5 Earth years |
| Uranus | 84.0 Earth years |
| Pluto | 248 years |
| Neptune | 12 Earth years |
First 10 anaimals in Space
From the USSR, Laika (Dog) 1957 3rd November
& 3 From the USA, Laska and Benhy (Mice
) 1958 13th December
3 Blank out number
& 5 From the USA Able (Rhesus
Monkey) and Baker (Female squirel Monkey) 28TH May 1959
6 and 7 From the
USSR Otvazhnaya (Female Samoyed Husky), and An unanmed rabbit. 2nd July 1959
From the USA Sam (Female Rhesus Monkey) 4th December 1959
From the USA Miss
Sam (Female Rhesus Monkey) 21st January 1960
and 11 From the USSR Belka and
Strelka (Female Huskies) 19th August 1960
More fascinating facts
Largest rock planet - Earth
Logest comet tail recorded to 2006, Great Comet 1811, 160 million km.
Largest Meteorite crater on Earth, is in Arizona, and 50,000 years old.
It is 183 metres deep, and 1200 metres in diamter.
A record for outside our Solar System
The largest known star is at least 1800 times the size of our Sun, and it would encompass the orbit of Jupiter in our Solar System. though nobody knows how large the largest is.
The largest planet known in 2006 is larger than Jupiter.
The smallest sun is certainly smaller than the largest planet.
Lonympics links
An Index for our sites, with links to 100s of our greatest sites.
The 10 Worst Regimes of the 20th Century
The 11 Highest Volcanoes on Earth in 2006
A Site stating the most famous walls in the world today
A site stating the most famous gates
Global Geography, sites like what are the 10 largest English speaking countries, or 10 largest Celtic cities, or biggest forests, etc. etc.,
Links
http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues00/Co02262000/CO_02262000_Meteorite.htm largest meteor from the USA
http://www.skymapper.co.uk/html/comet_trivia.html A site mentioing which comet is largest
http://www.nineplanets.org/intro.html
http://www.lonympics.co.uk/Olympus Mons.htm Tallest mountain, and volcano in the solar system, and Mars.
http://www.shallowsky.com/moon/ruklVII.html Info on the highest mountian on the moon.
http://2003 UB313nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/mgn_c260n033_2.html Tallest mountian onVenus
http://members.fortunecity.com/volcanopele/beginners.htm Info on tallest mountian on the moon IO
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/
A Multiple Choice Quiz on Space
A Clock saying how many people have landed on each planet in our Solar System
Some more intresting facts on the Solar System, http://www.lonympics.co.uk/solarsystemrecordbreakers2.htm
Find a Villa from Across Europe Grand World Villas - Find a Villa from anywhere in the world Gatlinburg Cabin Rentals
Find a Cottage in Britain or Ireland Find more Cottages in Britain, Ireland, North America or the world Find Cottages Here
Common Planetry Miss spellings, Mecury, Mercure, Neptoon, Yuranus, Saurn, Satrn, Gannymede, also mountian, a important word for this records site.
Why
not buy a Nebula Women's T - Shirt Or
a Man's Or a Kids
Do your kids love science? Want to give them more fun and education games? Check out our awesome science activities that will get your childs mind thinking. We have math help and also printable coloring sheets for little ones!