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General Knowledge

Terrestrial planets

All of the following are Terrestrial planets EXCEPT

[A] Mercury
[B] Venus
[C] Earth
[D] Jupitor

Terrestrial planet, telluric planet, solid planet, or rocky planet

  1. Terrestrial is a planet that is composed primarily of silicate rocks or metals.
  2. Within the Solar System, the terrestrial planets accepted by the IAU are the inner planets closest to the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
  3. Among astronomers who use the geophysical definition of a planet, two or three planetary-mass satellites – Earth’s Moon, Io, and sometimes Europa – may also be considered terrestrial planets; and so may be the rocky protoplanet-asteroids Pallas and Vesta.