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Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. It is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest and most massive of its four rocky planets. About 29 percent of Earth's surface is land, with the remaining 71 percent covered with water and much of Earth's polar regions covered in ice. Earth's interior is active with a solid-iron inner core, a liquid outer core that generates Earth's magnetic field, and a convective mantle that drives plate tectonics. Earth formed more than 4.5 billion years ago. Within the first billion years of Earth's history, life appeared in the oceans and began to affect Earth's atmosphere and surface. Since then, the combination of Earth's distance from the Sun, its physical properties and its geological history have allowed life to evolve and thrive, including more than 8 billion humans as of 2024. Earth is orbited by one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which orbits Earth at a radius of 384,400 km (238,900 mi) and is roughly a quarter as wide as Earth. This photograph of Earth straddling the lunar horizon was taken in 2015 by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter while located 134 km (83 mi) above the crater Compton, visible in the foreground. To capture the image, the spacecraft had to be rolled 67 degrees to its side, and slewed with the direction of travel to maximize the width of the lunar horizon, while traveling more than 1600 m/s (3600 mph) relative to the surface.Photograph credit: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Arizona State University; edited by Bammesk

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This editor is a Looshpah Laureate of the Encyclopedia and is entitled to display this Book of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix, Errata Sheet, and Author's Signature.

For great dedication to the WPVA, ya earned it.

		The Editor's Barnstar
		Woot woot! I was worried there for a bit, but alls well. Thanks for your help and fine editing this week. Patrick Ѻ 18:58, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

		The Special Barnstar
		"Deep in the wave is a coral grove, where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove; Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, that never are wet with falling dew." (J. G. Percival) For a good work. Rhanyeia 14:06, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for being patient and helpful during this long episode, thank you very, very much The Dominator (talk) 05:48, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for banning them even before I can give them an unneeded warning lol Rearete (talk) 04:14, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

The Sparky Barnstar

For your helpfulness, for your kindness, for answering questions that others would just ignore, for being there for users, and for doing what you can where you can to make Wikipedia a better place...I present to you the Sparky Barnstar. Congrats! - NeutralHomer ^{NeutralHomer • Talk 05:06, 22 September 2008 (UTC)}

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For using your administrative tools to keep Wikipedia in tip-top shape. Cheers! Eustress (talk) 00:30, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

		The Helping Hand Barnstar
		For your good work helping a new editor at the Healthy Kids School Canteen Association. Colonel Warden (talk) 16:38, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

		The Minor Barnstar
		Thank you for reverting the repeat vandalism on my userpage. They always come back a second time, don't they? Silver seren^C 02:22, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		You've beat me to reverting vandalism twice tonight, and I think that all your hard work deserves a reward! Sophus Bie ^(talk) 04:06, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

	Virginia
	Thank you for your quality work centered on Virginia, and for drawing a fine line between Keep and Delete with a sense of humor, repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian, said by others on 19 July (!) and 2 August 2010 --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:13, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thank you Uaearthub (talk) 10:55, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	This is for your part in improving Defense Acquisition University! *MurderByDeadcopy*^"bang!" 05:20, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Hey, I simply wanted to say thanks for taking care of all the pages I tag and I certainly notice and appreciate it. Cheers! SwisterTwister talk 02:21, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

	The No Spam Barnstar
	Thank you for speedily deleting the spam article InvasionR002! Erick Shepherd (talk) 15:08, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	I wouldn't be surprised if you already got this barnstar... nor would I be surprised if you got it 5 times before! You're so fast in recent changes reverting vandalism that you've ninjaed me thrice! Great job! InterstateFive (talk) - just another roadgeek 15:11, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

I'm an awesome Wikipedian!

This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian and was awarded his own day.

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