Sarah+Mercury

= Facts about Mercury! = Mercury is the second smallest planet in the solar system. Lager only that Pluto. Mercury is named after the Roman god of commerece. If Earth was the size of an baseball, mercury would be the size of a golf ball. If you were on Mercury, the Sun would look three times bigger, as it does from Earth.

Mercury moves around the sun faster than any other planet, in the solar system. As Mercury moves around the sun, it rotates on its axis, an imaginary line that runs through its center. The planet rotates once about every 59 Earth days -- a rotation slower than that of any other planet except Venus. As a result of the planet's slow rotation on its axis and rapid movement around the sun, a day on Mercury -- that is, the interval between one sunrise and the next -- lasts 176 Earth days.

I think Mercury is a great planet and it is very similer to earth. Both of the planets are solid and iorn and both orbit the sun.



= More Facts  =

Diameter: 4,875km Distance from the sun:57,9 millon km One orbit: 88 Earth days One spin: 59 Earth days Surface temperature: -180c to + 430c Number of moons: none

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