Real Planets Mercury

The inner rocky planets are mercury venus earth and mars. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.

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Even though the planet is small mercury is very dense.

Real planets mercury. The outer planets are gas giants jupiter and saturn and ice giants uranus and neptune. Mercury is the smallest and closest planet to the sun in the solar system. A day on mercury lasts a lot longer than a day on earth.

Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system with a diameter of 4 879 km and is one of five planets that is visible to the naked eye. It is named after the greek god hermes ερμής translated into latin as mercurius mercury god of commerce messenger of the gods mediator between gods and mortals. Beyond neptune a newer class of smaller worlds called dwarf planets reign including longtime favorite pluto.

One of five planets visible with the naked eye a mercury is just 4 879 kilometres across its equator compared with 12 742 kilometres for the earth. Mercury is the second densest planet. Like the other planets in the solar system mercury was born about 4 5 billion years ago condensing from the swirling ring of dust and gas left over from the sun s formation.

Despite its small size mercury is very dense because it is composed mainly of heavy metals and rock the main characteristic of terrestrial planets. Its orbit around the sun takes 87 97 earth days the shortest of all the planets in the solar system. After the earth mercury is the second densest planet.

Mercury goes around the sun once every 88 earth days. One day on mercury lasts 59 earth days. Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system.

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