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Hi Folks!
New Years here on Earth comes around every time the Earth goes
around the sun once. But every planet in our solar system takes
a different amount of time to go around the sun.
Let's say that this year, evey planet will celebrate New Years at the
same time that we do here on Earth.
We'll call that year 1, day 1 for everyone.
Mercury takes only 88 days to go around the sun.
So Mercury will have its next new years celebration only 88 days from now,
around 3 months. And then it'll celebrate again 3 months after
that. Mercury should be called the party planet!
Venus takes 224 days to go around the sun, which is seven and a half months.
So not quite the party planet that Mercury is,
but more so than us.
Here on Earth we of course take 365 days to go around the sun,
well a little bit more but we're keeping it simple.
Mars takes 687 days to circle the sun, so every 1 year and 10 months.
The Martians have to wait almost every two of our years to party.
But that's nowhere near as bad as Jupiter, which takes 4332 days to go around the sun.
That's 11.8 Earth years between celebrations and midnight kisses!
However, it's even worse for Saturn, which goes around once every 10,559 days,
or 29 and a half years! New Years is a real big event there
that comes around only 2 or 3 times in a human lifetime.
But then Uranus has to wait almost 3 times that,
since they orbit the sun every 30,685 days. That's every 84 years!
Many humans living on Uranus would never get to celebrate New Years at all.
And lastly there's Neptune. Poor Neptune takes 60,189 days, or 165 years.
It's such a rare event there that when they do celebrate,
the whole solar system can see their fire works.
Well, thanks for watching!
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