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Mercury
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(Click to see a
larger picture)
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| Mercury
is the closest planet to the Sun.
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It
weighs 364,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons
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and
has a diameter of 3,032 miles.
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One
day on Mercury is 4,222 hours long.
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average distance of Mercury from the Sun |
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million miles.
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at times Mercury is only 28,600,000.00 |
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from
the Sun while
at other times it is actually |
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43,400,000
miles from the Sun.
The
reason is
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that
the orbit is not a perfect circle, but an ellipse.
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| Mercury
takes 88 days to orbit the Sun.
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mean temperature on Mercury is 333
degrees
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nheit.
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