82 Chapter 2 From the Solar System to the Milky Way
Kaguya-hime and the Solar System
Let’s try to determine which planet should be Kaguya-hime’s birthplace. Can we find a suit-
able birthplace for Kaguya-hime in our solar system?
Earth
Sun
Mercury
Mars
Venus
Neptune
Saturn
Jupiter
Uranus
[Pluto]
The orbits of planets in our solar system
(In August 2006, Pluto was reclassified and removed from the list of planets.)
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Mercury
Size Approximately 0.38 times the size of Earth (equatorial radius of 1,516 miles,
or 2,440 km)
Mass ...
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