The planets to scale in every way... plus dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto, the only two mapped dwarf planets.

The material from which all planets grew was orbiting the Sun. When growing planets attract this material, they get larger but also faster, as they also take on the material's momentum. That's why large planets like Jupiter are generally faster!

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@Physicsj Mercury and Venus originally had spins similar to Earth and Mars, but tidal forcing by the the sun has slowed them down to almost no spin.

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