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What number in the solar system is Mercury?

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)

Designations
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
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.