Venus is the second planet from the Sun and the sixth largest. Venus' orbit is the most nearly circular of that of any planet, with an eccentricity of less than 1%.
        orbit:    108,200,000 km (0.72 AU) from Sun
        diameter: 12,103.6 km
        mass:     4.869e24 kg

Venus has been known since prehistoric times. It is the brightest object in the sky except for the Sun and the Moon.

Like Mercury, Venus was popularly thought to be two separate bodies: Eosphorus as the morning star and Hesperus as the evening star, but the Greek astronomers knew better.