by notynika on April 25th, 2007

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Name the brightest planet in the solar system.

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by slothmister on May 27th, 2007
The answer is Venus, but that is in our sky, if you were to fly out to a nearby star and look back the planet you would most likely see would be Jupiter and that is purly because of its size!
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by Quirkie on April 25th, 2007
Here are three different ways to interpret that:

a)What is the brightest planet as seen from Earth?

Answer: Venus

b) What is the brightest planet as seen from a given distance, say 10,000km away?

Answer: Jupiter. (I think)

c) What planet reflects the greatest fraction of the light that hits it?

Answer: Venus again.
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- Very good.
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  by Vashtar on May 28th, 2007
- Agreed. Very good answer. Never thought of that before.
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  by vietasianfox45 on September 20th, 2007
- In the radio wave lengths it is by far Earth
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  by BaconDay on August 19th, 2008
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by Norman_Outside the lines on April 25th, 2007
I think earth Is pretty "bright"
A lot of smart people here !
( Well, if you count ME out that is ;)
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- The Earth is pretty bright, too. In fact, I'd say if you are viewing from the Earth that the Earth is brighter than Venus. But I suspect it's was understood that we're ignoring the planet we're viewing from.
  
  Another way to look at this is by "albedo", a scientific term for reflectivity of a surface. However, I am not sure which planet has the highest albedo; probably Venus due to the clouds.
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  by weatherman taking week or so off on June 1st, 2007
- well I would think pluto has a good reflective surface being ice or frozen matter, but pluto is not a planet any more.:(
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  by Norman_Outside the lines on June 1st, 2007
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by Dilesh_P on April 5th, 2011
The most brightest planet is venus when seen from earth but if we go at a distance from the earth surface the earth would appear to be the brightest plane because it reflects sunrays more because of water of ocean.
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by FlameOFDestiny on February 3rd, 2011
venus
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by - MojoThunder - on September 11th, 2009
actually, none of them actually emit light ... but VENUS reflects the most light
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by Anonymous on April 25th, 2007
Besides the sun ( Of Course ) , it's Venus.
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- The Sun isn't a planet anyway.
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  by ChrisDG on April 25th, 2007
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by yawn on September 11th, 2009
Jupiter - it has an IQ of 150.
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by Hayzen on September 11th, 2009
Take a look and you decide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WEL117xXpw
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