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  • Planetary Orbits: Orbital Periods of Planets in Our Solar System
    Here's a breakdown of the orbital periods for each planet in our solar system:

    * Mercury: 88 Earth days

    * Venus: 225 Earth days

    * Earth: 365.25 Earth days (that's why we have leap years!)

    * Mars: 687 Earth days

    * Jupiter: 11.86 Earth years

    * Saturn: 29.46 Earth years

    * Uranus: 84 Earth years

    * Neptune: 165 Earth years

    As you can see, the farther a planet is from the Sun, the longer its orbital period. This is due to Kepler's Third Law of Planetary Motion, which states that the square of a planet's orbital period is proportional to the cube of its average distance from the Sun.

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