How Old Would You Be on Another Planet (or Pluto)?

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The planets in our solar system (and Pluto) rotate on their axes at different rates and take differing amounts of time to complete an orbit of the Sun. Thus, you would have seen a different number of days and years pass on the different planets (and Pluto).

Contributed by: Chris Boucher (March 2011)
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