Template:Planet

Planet
Orbital characteristics
Physical characteristics

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Template: Planet
Use on	Astronomy articles
Use for	Infobox
Category template applies to page	Planets

Template Parameters (See using templates).
Name	Purpose	Required?	Comment
name	Name	no	Defaults to page name
image	Picture of body	no	just image name
caption	Caption	no	optional image data
symbol	Symbol	no
date	Date of discovery	no
discname	Name of discoverer	no
origname	Name origin	no
primary	Name of primary	no
order	Order from primary	no
periapsis	Periapsis	no	Closest approach
apoapsis	Apoapsis	no	Farthest flight
semimajor	Semi-major axis	no	Average of the two above
orbitradius	Mean distance from primary	no	If not specified or different from above
bode	Bode's Law prediction	no	Distance predicted by Bode's Law
circumference	Orbital circumference	no
eccentricity	Orbital eccentricity	no
sidereal	Sidereal year/month/period	no	Time for one revolution
synodic	Synodic year/month/period	no	Time for one Earthly zodiacal cycle
orbitspeed	Orbital speed	no	Speed of body in its orbit
inclination	Inclination	no	Inclination
reference	Reference plane	no	Inclined to what plane?
siderealday	Sidereal day	no	Time for one rotation
solar day	Solar day	no	Time to display same face to sun
rotatespeed	Rotational speed	no	Speed of rotation
axialtilt	Axial tilt	no	Inclination of axis to orbit
mass	Mass	no
diameter	Diameter	no
meanradius	Mean body radius	no
equatorradius	Equatorial radius	no
polarradius	Polar radius	no
surfacegrav	Surface gravity	no
escapespeed	Escape speed	no
surfacearea	Surface area	no
landarea	Land area	no
waterarea	Water area	no
mintemp	Minimum temperature	no
meantemp	Mean temperature	no
maxtemp	Maximum temperature	no
moons	Number of moons	no
composition	Composition	no
color	Color	no
albedo	Albedo	no
mfd	Magnetic flux density	no
pmdm	Magnetic moment, present	no
cmdm	Magnetic moment, creation	no	Per Humphreys model (1984)
mdt	Magnetic decay time	no
mhl	Magnetic half-life	no

Sample Data Block

The following may be copied and pasted at the top of the page being edited

{{Planet
| name= 
| image=
| caption=
| symbol=
| date=
| discname=
| origname=
| primary=
| order=
| periapsis=
| apoapsis=
| semimajor=
| orbitradius=
| circumference=
| eccentricity=
| sidereal=
| synodic=
| orbitspeed=
| inclination=
| reference=
| siderealday=
| solarday=
| rotatespeed=
| axialtilt=
| mass=
| density=
| diameter=
| meanradius=
| equatorradius=
| polarradius=
| surfacegrav=
| escapespeed=
| surfacearea=
| meantemp=
| moons=
| composition=
| color=
| albedo=
| mfd=
| pmdm=
| cmdm=
| mdt=
| mhl=
}}