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Planet

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A planet is a big round thing.

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Planet collage to scale.jpg
It moves around a star. We live on a planet called Earth. It is a very special place.
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Solar System true color (captions).jpg
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Planet_collage_to_scale.jpg
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Solar System true color (captions).jpg
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Exoplanet detections per year.png
File:TheKuiperBelt Orbits Pluto Ecliptic.svg
TheKuiperBelt Orbits Pluto Ecliptic.svg
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AxialTiltObliquity.png
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Jupiter interior.png
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Top of Atmosphere.jpg
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Structure_of_the_magnetosphere_LanguageSwitch.svg
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Voyager 2 - Saturn Rings - 3085 7800 2.png
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Apparent retrograde motion of Mars in 2003.gif
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1660 illustration of Claudius Ptolemy's...
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📚 Content adapted from Wikipedia | Readability: FK 13.9 | Vital Level 3