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Records of the Solar System
- Hottest place
- Sun's core 15'000'000°C – this temperature can support nuclear fusion
- Hottest place aside from the Sun
- Io (Jupiter's moon) the temperature of volcanic lava reaches 1600°C, which is hotter than the lava that erupts on planet Earth
- Coldest place
- Hermit Crater on the Moon the lower temperature level can reach −247°C (26 kelvins); it's really cool :)
- Most red
- Arrokoth trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt has a surface more red than Mars planet
- Most white & most reflective object
- Enceladus (moon of Saturn) brightest body in the Solar System with albedo 0.99; high brightness is due to the fact that water erupting from the planet's depths cools down and forms a snow cover on the surface
- Smallest planet
- Mercury about 5.4% of the Earth's volume
- Largest planet
- Jupiter diameter is approximately 142'984 km (about 29.3 times the diameter of Mercury)
- Largest asteroid
- Ceres mean diameter is 939 km (can be compared to the distance from London to Berlin in a straight line); first known asteroid (1801)
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