Meet the Blogger South Africa,Western Cape Earth is the third
planet from the Sun and the fifth largest: orbit: 149,600,000 km
(1.00 AU) from Sun diameter: 12,756.3 km mass: 5.972e24 kg
Amazing pictures of Earth from space combine useful science and
artistic beauty. Orbit : Nasa Astronauts Photograph the Earth A
beautiful coffee table book. Kids often ask me which is my
favorite planet. My answer is always "Earth". This book shows
why. Earth is the only planet whose English name does not derive
from Greek/Roman mythology. The name derives from Old English
and Germanic. There are, of course, hundreds of other names for
the planet in other languages. In Roman Mythology, the goddess
of the Earth was Tellus - the fertile soil (Greek: Gaia, terra
mater - Mother Earth). It was not until the time of Copernicus
(the sixteenth century) that it was understood that the Earth is
just another planet. Mir and Earth's limb Mir space station and
Earth's limb Earth, of course, can be studied without the aid of
spacecraft. Nev