venus info?

Question

I need some facts about the planet venus....anything you know about venus. I also want to know Mass (compare to earth)
diameter/size (compare to earth), moon: list of all names
distance from earth: how long to arrive? surface gravity: what is my weight there? (145 pounds) atmosphere composition
interest facts

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus

Answer 2

Venus is so close in size to earth that is called earth's twin. Earth is 7927 miles id diameter and Venus is 7526 miles in diameter. Venus has no moons. At it's nearest Venus is only 25 million miles from Earth.Venus' year is the same length as it's day. It's atmosphere is extremely dense and is 96.6% carbon dioxide, the upper levels are very acidic but close to the surface the atmosphere is calm and clear.

Answer 3

Hi, Here is a few things you might not find on wikipeidia.

The atmosphere is so think and dense that if we were on the planet we would be crushed from the pressure. Also most of Venus is hills of lava, making another inhabital trait about it. When the sun is just setting and riseing you can see venus. Also called Earth's twin, though it there composition is quite different. They are about the same in mass and size.

Answer 4

Mass compared to Earth: 81.5% of Earth's mass (which is 5.9736×10^24 kg)

Diameter compared to Earth: 650 km less

No moons.

At it's closest, Venus is 26 million miles (41,840,000 km) away from Earth

Surface gravity: 8.87 m/s^2, 88% of Earth's... (you would weigh 127.6 lbs)

Atmospheric composition: 96.5% Carbon dioxide, 3.5% Nitrogen, .015% Sulphur dioxide, .007% Argon, .002% Water vapor, .0017% Carbon monoxide, .0012% Helium, .0007% Neon, trace amounts of Carbonyl sulfide, Hydrogen chloride, and Hyrdogen flouride.

Interesting fact:

Before the invention of the telescope, people in the Western Hemisphere thought that Venus was a moving star.

Answer 5

How about some information on the transit of Venus (passing between the sun and the earth)? See the link below - VERY good site.

Answer 6

Venus
Orbital characteristics
Epoch J2000
Aphelion distance: 108,942,109 km
0.728 231 28 AU
67,693,488 mi
Perihelion distance: 107,476,259 km
0.718 432 70 AU
66,782,651 mi
Semi-major axis: 108,208,930 km
0.723 332 AU
67,237,910 mi
Semi-minor axis: 108,206,428 km
0.723 315 AU
67,236,355 mi
Orbital circumference: 679,888,900 km
4.545 AU
Orbital area: 3.678 46 × 1016 km2
1.644 AU2
Eccentricity: 0.006 8
Sidereal period: 224.700 69 day
(0.615 197 0 yr)
Synodic period: 583.92 day
Avg. orbital speed: 35.02 km/s
Max. orbital speed: 35.26 km/s
Min. orbital speed: 34.79 km/s
Inclination: 3.394 71°
(3.86° to Sun's equator)
Longitude of ascending node: 76.670 69°
Argument of perihelion: 54.852 29°
Satellites: None
Physical characteristics
Equatorial radius: 6,051.9 km
(0.95 Earths)
Surface area: 4.60×108 km²
(0.902 Earths)
Volume: 9.38×1011 km³
(0.857 Earths)
Mass: 4.8685×1024 kg
(0.815 Earths)
Mean density: 5.204 g/cm³
Equatorial surface gravity: 8.87 m/s2
(0.904 g)
Escape velocity: 10.46 km/s
Sidereal rotation period: −243.0185 day
Rotation velocity at equator: 6.52 km/h (at the equator)
Axial tilt: 2.64°
Right ascension of North pole: 18 h 11 min 2 s
(272.76°)
Declination of North pole: 67.16°
Albedo: 0.65
Surface temp.:
Kelvin
Celsius min mean max
735 K[2][3]
461.85 °C

Adjectives: Venusian or (rarely) Cytherean
Atmosphere
Surface pressure: 9.3 MPa
Composition: ~96.5% Carbon dioxide
~3.5% Nitrogen
.015% Sulphur dioxide
.007% Argon
.002% Water vapor
.0017% Carbon monoxide
.0012% Helium
.0007% Neon
trace Carbonyl sulfide
trace Hydrogen chloride
trace Hydrogen fluoride
Venus (IPA: /ˈvi.nəs/) is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It is the brightest natural object in the night sky, except for the Moon, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6. Because Venus is an inferior planet, from Earth it never appears to venture far from the Sun: its elongation reaches a maximum of 47.8°. Venus reaches its maximum brightness shortly before sunrise or shortly after sunset, for which reason it is often called the Morning Star or the Evening Star.

Classified as a terrestrial planet, it is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet", for the two are similar in size, gravity, and bulk composition. Venus is covered with an opaque layer of highly reflective clouds of carbon dioxide, preventing its surface from being seen from space in visible light; this was a subject of great speculation until some of its secrets were revealed by planetary science in the twentieth century. Venus has the densest atmosphere of all the terrestrial planets, consisting mostly of carbon dioxide. The atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is 90 times that of the Earth.

Venus' surface has been mapped in detail only in the last 20 years. It shows evidence of extensive volcanism, and some of its volcanoes may still be active today. Venus is thought to undergo periodic episodes of plate tectonics, in which the crust is subducted rapidly within a few million years, separated by stable periods of a few hundred million years.

The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love; most of its surface features are named after famous and mythological women. The adjective Venusian is commonly used for items related to Venus, though the Latin adjective is the rarely used Venerean; the now-archaic Cytherean is still occasionally encountered. Venus is the only planet in the Solar System named after a female figure,although two dwarf planets—Ceres and Eris—also have female names.

Answer 7

Here's something that actualy works. In a browser search window, type venus. You will get a few million hits. wikipedia is a good place to start

Answer 8

Venus ...still a planet????
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus

Answer 9

It's called this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus