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

MarsOlympus Mons, Tharsis bulge,27 km
EarthMount Everest, Asia, 9 KM from sea level
VenusMaxwell Montes, Lakshmi Planum11km
Earth's MoonBeta, Leibnitz Range36,000 feet
Io A moon of JupiterBoosaule Montes16 km
Europa moon of jupiter  
Mercury  
Ganymede  

 

Largest planet

Planet

Size diameter at equator
Mercury4879.4 km
Venus12,103.7 km
Earth12,756 km
Mars6,804.9 km
Jupiter143,000 km
Saturn120,000 km
Uranus51,118 km
Pluto2306 km
Neptune49,528 km

Largest Moon

Planet

Number of known moons (Open to debate due to classification of moon or sattelite)Largest Moon
Mercury0 
Venus0 
Earth1The Moon 3642 km
Mars2Phobos 22.2km
Jupiter63Ganymede 5262 km
Saturn45Titan 5150 km
Uranus27Titania 1580 km
Pluto3Charon 1172 kilometers
Neptune13Triton 2700 km

Longest days

Planet

Length of day
Mercury56 Earth days
Venus243 days
Earth1 day
Mars1 day
Jupiter9.8 hours
Saturn10.2 days
Uranus42 year
Pluto6.3 days
Neptune19.1 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


Planet / Moon

Biggest crater
MoonSouth Pole-Aitken basin 2500 kilometers in diameter
VenusMead Crater 280 Km
EarthVredefort crater 300 KM
MarsHellas Planitia 2100 KM

Length of year

Planet

Length of year
Mercury88 Earth days
Venus225 Earth days
Earth1 year
Mars2.11 Earth years
Jupiter11.9 Earth years
Saturn29.5 Earth years
Uranus84.0 Earth years
Pluto248 years
Neptune12 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

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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.

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http://2003 UB313nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/mgn_c260n033_2.html Tallest mountian onVenus

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