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Equatorial diameters of the planets, in miles...

Mercury: 3,032

Venus: 7,521

Earth: 7,926

Mars: 4,217

Jupiter: 88,732

Saturn: 74,565

Uranus: 32,187

Neptune: 30,758

"The Solar System", Roman Smoluchowski, Scientific American Library, 1983, Page 164 - Converted to miles

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