GEOGRAPHY
SOLAR SYSTEM
LIST OF IMPORTANT AWARDS
1. Man Booker Prize 2013 - Eleanor Catton (for The Luminaries)
2. Man Booker International Prize - Lydia Davis
3. Grand Prize at Cuba's International Radio and Telivision Festival - Baraksat (LebaneseDocumentary)
4. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Kevin Barry51. INDEX Design Award - Kavitha Shukla
5. Asia Pacific International Award - Dr. Mujeeb Athar
6. Cecil B Demile Award - Woody Allen
7. Champion for Global Change Award 2013 - Malala Yousafzai
8. First Mahathir Award for Global Peace - Nelson Mandela
9. German Whistleblower Prize 2013 - Edward Snowden
10. Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival- Sacro GRA (Italy)
11. ISRO Young Scientist Award - Jenita Mary
12. Jnanpith Award 2012 - Ravuri Bharadhwaja
13. Knighthood, which is the highest honour ofBritain - Anish Kapoor (sculptor).
14. Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran -Hariharan
15. 'Legend of Planet' award - Bindeshwar Pathak (Sulabh movement founder)
16. Library of Congress Gershwin Award - Carole King (first woman)
17. National Literacy Award - Chattisgarh
18. NSS Wernher von Braun MemorialAward - Abdul Kalam
19. Vyas Samman (2012) – Narendra Kohli
20. Whitley award (Green Oscar) - Dr. Aparajita Datta
21. UEFA Best Player in Europe Award- Franck Ribéry
22. UN’s Public Service Award - Omen Chandi (Kerala CM)
23. Unique Female Leader Award - Madeleine Albrite (former US Secratary)
24. United Nation's Public Service Award - Oommen Chandy (Chief Minister of Kerala).
25. US "woman of courage" award - Nirbhaya (Dehli gang rape victim)
26. Women’s Prize for Fiction - AM Homes (for her book, May We Be Forgiven)
27. Youngest Indian to scale theMount Everest - Raghav Joneja
28. ParliamentarianAwards - 2012 - Sharad Yadav
29. NTR National Literary Award - Manoj Das
30. Sree Narayan Guru Global Secular & Peace Award 2013 - Shashi Tharoor
31. Presidential medal of freedom - Dr. Sally Ride
32. Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013 - Adam Johnson (for the novel “The Orphan Master’s son”)
33. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna - Ranjan Sodhi
34. Saraswati Samman (2013) – Sugathakumari
35. Skoch Group Award - Jharkhand
36. Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony - Zubin Mehta
37. Tagore Peace Prize - Shihab Ghanem (first Arab)
38. The Simón Bolívar National Award of Journalism 2013 - Hugo Chavez (late Venezuelan President )
40. U. N. Champions of the Earth Award - V. Ramanathan
SOLAR SYSTEM
SOLAR SYSTEM : SOME IMPORTANT FACTS
Biggest Planet: Jupiter Blue Planet : Earth
Smallest Planet: Neptune Morning Star: Venus
Nearest Planet to Mercury Evening Star: Venus
Sun:
Farthest Planet Neptune Planet with a red Jupiter
From Sun: Spot:
Nearest Planet to Venus Brightest planet Sirius
Earth: outside Solar (Dog Star)
System:
Brightest Planet: Venus Closest Star of (Proxima centuary) Solar System:
Hottest Planet: Venus Fastest rotation Jupiter
in solar system:
Coldest Planet: Pluto Slowest rotation Venus
in Solar System:
Red Planet: Mars Fastest revolution Mercury
in Solar System:
Biggest Satellite Gany-Mede Slowest revolution Pluto
in Solar System:
Smallest Satellite: Deimos
SOLAR FAMIY : SOME IMPORTANT FACTS
Revolution Rotation Density
Member Period Period No.of (Water=1)
(Days) (Days) Satellites
Mercury 88 58.65 0 4.80
Venus 224.7 257 0 4.85
Earth 365 1.00 1 5.52
Mars 687 1.03 2 3.95
Jupiter 4333 0.41 63 1.33
Saturn 10759 0.43 31 0.69
Uranus 30686 0.45 21 1.36
Neptune 60188 0.66 8 1.30
SUN : SOME IMPORTANT FACTS
Average distance from Earth 14,95,98,900 km
Diameter 13.91,980 km
Temperature of the Core 1,50,00,000oK
Rotation Speed 23,38 days (with respect to Equator); 33 days (with Respect to poles.)
Chemical composition Hydrogen: 71%;
Helium:26.5%;
Other gases: 2.5%
Age 4.6 billion years
Total life 10 billion years
Time taken by sunlight to 8 mn. And 16.6 sec.
Reach earth
Speed of light (in vacuum ) 3,00,000 kmps
MOON : SOME IMPORTANT FACTS
Average distance from Earth 3,84,385 km
Diameter 3,476 km
Ratio of diameter of moon to 1 : 37
That of earth
Revolution speed 27 days, 7 hrs, 43 min & 11.47 Sec.
Time taken by moon light to 1.3 Sec.
Reach earth
Percent of surface visible from 59%
Earth
First man to reach moon Neil Armstrong and
Edvin Aldrin on Apollo XI (1969)
EARTH : SOME IMPORTANT FACTS
Age 4,550 million years
Mass 5.976 x 1024kg
Volume 1.083 x 1024 lites
Mean Density 5.518 kg/lt
Total Surface Area 510 million sq. km
Land Area 29.2% of the total surface area
Water Area 70.8% of the total surface area
Equatorial Diametre 12,755 km
Polar Diametre 12,712 km
Escape Velocity 11.2 km/sec
Highest Pand Point Mount Everest (8,852m)
Lowest Land Point Dead Sea (396 m)
Greatest Ocean Depth Mariana Trench (11,033 m)
Equatorial Circumference 40,076 km
Polar Circumference 40,024 km
Mean Surface Temperature 14oC
Maximum distance from About 152 million km
Sun (Perihelion)
Rotation Speed 23 hrs, 56 min & 40.91 sec
Revolution Speed 365 days, 5 hrs, & 45.51 sec
nights are equal Sep. 23 (Autumnal Equinox)
Dates of longest days and June 21 (Summer Solstice);
Shortest Night Dec. 22 (Winder Solstice)
LIST OF IMPORTANT AWARDS
1. Man Booker Prize 2013 - Eleanor Catton (for The Luminaries)
2. Man Booker International Prize - Lydia Davis
3. Grand Prize at Cuba's International Radio and Telivision Festival - Baraksat (LebaneseDocumentary)
4. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Kevin Barry51. INDEX Design Award - Kavitha Shukla
5. Asia Pacific International Award - Dr. Mujeeb Athar
6. Cecil B Demile Award - Woody Allen
7. Champion for Global Change Award 2013 - Malala Yousafzai
8. First Mahathir Award for Global Peace - Nelson Mandela
9. German Whistleblower Prize 2013 - Edward Snowden
10. Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival- Sacro GRA (Italy)
11. ISRO Young Scientist Award - Jenita Mary
12. Jnanpith Award 2012 - Ravuri Bharadhwaja
13. Knighthood, which is the highest honour ofBritain - Anish Kapoor (sculptor).
14. Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran -Hariharan
15. 'Legend of Planet' award - Bindeshwar Pathak (Sulabh movement founder)
16. Library of Congress Gershwin Award - Carole King (first woman)
17. National Literacy Award - Chattisgarh
18. NSS Wernher von Braun MemorialAward - Abdul Kalam
19. Vyas Samman (2012) – Narendra Kohli
20. Whitley award (Green Oscar) - Dr. Aparajita Datta
21. UEFA Best Player in Europe Award- Franck Ribéry
22. UN’s Public Service Award - Omen Chandi (Kerala CM)
23. Unique Female Leader Award - Madeleine Albrite (former US Secratary)
24. United Nation's Public Service Award - Oommen Chandy (Chief Minister of Kerala).
25. US "woman of courage" award - Nirbhaya (Dehli gang rape victim)
26. Women’s Prize for Fiction - AM Homes (for her book, May We Be Forgiven)
27. Youngest Indian to scale theMount Everest - Raghav Joneja
28. ParliamentarianAwards - 2012 - Sharad Yadav
29. NTR National Literary Award - Manoj Das
30. Sree Narayan Guru Global Secular & Peace Award 2013 - Shashi Tharoor
31. Presidential medal of freedom - Dr. Sally Ride
32. Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013 - Adam Johnson (for the novel “The Orphan Master’s son”)
33. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna - Ranjan Sodhi
34. Saraswati Samman (2013) – Sugathakumari
35. Skoch Group Award - Jharkhand
36. Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony - Zubin Mehta
37. Tagore Peace Prize - Shihab Ghanem (first Arab)
38. The Simón Bolívar National Award of Journalism 2013 - Hugo Chavez (late Venezuelan President )
40. U. N. Champions of the Earth Award - V. Ramanathan

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