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Syzygy: All nine planets recognized at this time — Mercury to Pluto — align on the same side of the Sun.

Historical image related to Syzygy: All nine planets recognized at this time — Mercury to Pluto — align on the same side of the Sun. from March 10, 1982

Syzygy (astronomy)

Alignment of celestial bodies

In astronomy, a syzygy is a roughly straight-line configuration of three or more celestial bodies in a gravitational system.
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Mercury (planet)

First planet from the Sun

Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System. It is a rocky planet with a trace atmosphere and a surface gravity slightly higher than that of Mars. The surface of Mercury is similar to Earth's Moon, heavily cratered, with expansive rupes system,…
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Pluto

Dwarf planet

Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume by a small margin, but is less massive than…
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Sun

Star at the centre of the Solar System

The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at…
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March 10

Day of the year

March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 296 days remain until the end of the year.
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