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What number in the solar system is Mercury?
Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and the closest to the Sun. Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97 Earth days, the shortest of all the Sun’s planets….Mercury (planet)
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Epoch J2000 | |
Aphelion | 0.466697 AU 69,816,900 km |
Perihelion | 0.307499 AU 46,001,200 km |
Semi-major axis | 0.387098 AU 57,909,050 km |
What is the radius of Mercury in KM?
2,439.7 km
Mercury/Radius
What is the distance from Mercury to Venus?
31.1 million miles
Subtracting 36 from 67.1 equals 31.1, meaning that the distance between Mercury and Venus is 31.1 million miles.
What is Mercury’s average temperature?
It is understood that the sunny side may reach temperatures of 750 to 800 degrees F., while the nighttime temperature plummets to nearly -330 degrees F. The average temperature on Mercury is a balmy 354 degrees F.
What is the exact size of Mercury?
3,030 miles
Mercury’s diameter is 3,030 miles (4,878 km), comparable to the size of the continental United States. This makes it about two-fifths the size of Earth. It is smaller than Jupiter’s moon Ganymede and Saturn’s moon Titan.
How many square miles is mercury?
74.8 million km²
Mercury/Surface area
How far is Neptune from Mercury?
Planet distance table
From | To | AU |
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Mercury | Saturn | 9.14 |
Mercury | Uranus | 18.82 |
Mercury | Neptune | 29.70 |
Venus | Earth | 0.28 |
How Mercury got its name?
Mercury is one of the five classical planets visible with the naked eye and is named after the swift-footed Roman messenger god.
What is the average temperature of Mercury and Earth?
Surface temperatures of the inner rocky planets
Mercury | – 275 °F (- 170°C) | + 840 °F (+ 449°C) |
Venus | + 870 °F (+ 465°C) | + 870 °F (+ 465°C) |
Earth | – 129 °F (- 89°C) | + 136 °F (+ 58°C) |
Moon | – 280 °F (- 173°C) | + 260 °F (+ 127°C) |
Mars | – 195 °F (- 125°C) | + 70 °F (+ 20°C) |
What is Mercury in right now?
Mercury is currently in the constellation of Libra.