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Equatorial radius 6,052 km
Equatorial inclination 2.64°
Mass 4.87×1024 kg
Average density 5.2 g/cm3
Rotational period1 -240 days
Orbital period 0.6152 years
Average distance from the Sun 108.2 million km
Perihelion 107.5 million km
Aphelion 108.9 million km
Orbital eccentricity 0.00674
Orbital inclination 3.39°
Moons 0
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Source
Data are from the U.S. Naval Observatory's annual Astronomical Almanac and various other publications.
Footnotes
1A negative rotational period indicates that Venus rotates in the opposite direction from that in which Earth and most of the other planets rotate.
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