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Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System
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Our solar system has eight planets, and five officially recognized dwarf planets . Which planet is biggest? Which is smallest? What is the order of the planets as we move out from the Sun?
This is a simple guide to the sizes of planets based on the equatorial diameter – or width – at the equator of each planet. Each planet’s width is compared to Earth’s equatorial diameter, which is about 7,926 miles (12,756 kilometers).
At the bottom of the page, there is a handy list of the order of the planets moving away from our Sun.
Order of Planets and Dwarf Planets – Distance From the Sun
NASA/JPL
- Mercury: 36 million miles (58 million kilometers)
- Venus: 67.2 million miles (108 million kilometers)
- Earth: 93 million miles (149.7 million kilometers)
- Mars: 141.6 million miles (227.9 million kilometers)
- Dwarf planet Ceres: 257 million miles (413 million kilometers)
- Jupiter: 483.7 million miles (778 million kilometers)
- Saturn: 889.8 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers)
- Uranus: 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers)
- Neptune: 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers)
- Dwarf Planet Pluto: 3.67 billion miles (5.9 billion kilometers)
- Dwarf Planet Haumea: 4 billion miles (6.5 billion kilometers)
- Dwarf Planet Makemake: 4.3 billion miles (6.9 billion kilometers)
- Dwarf Planet Eris: 6.3 billion miles (10 billion kilometers)
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