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Data Set for CHAPTER 2


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This table represents observational data of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. It relates the distance of a planet from the sun in millions of kms (first column) to the period of the planet in days, the time it takes for the planet to orbit the sun, a "year", (second column).


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1st col 2nd col
57.9 88
108.2 225
149.6 365
227.9 687
778.3 4329
1427.0 10753
2870.0 30660
4497.0 60150
5900.0 90670