planets: Specifications of the planets in the Solar System.

Description Usage Format Source Examples

Description

A dataset containing the name, orbital radius and orbital eccentricity of the planets in the Solar System. I'm old school, so Pluto is still in there.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 9 records and 3 variables:

name

planet name;

distance

length of orbital semi-major axis [units: AU];

eccentricity

orbital eccentricity.

Source

These data were constructed using information from NASA's Planetary Fact Sheet at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/.

Examples

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plot(eccentricity ~ distance, data = planets)

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