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Monday, March 1, 2010

Planet - Mercury


Diameter : 4,849.6km
Moons : none
Density : 5.43 g/cm cube
Average distance to the sun : 57.6 million km.
Time to orbit the sun :87.97 days
Tiny mercury , slightly larger than Earth’s moon. Races along its elliptical orbit at 176000 km per hour a speed that keeps it from being drawn in to the sun’s gravity filed. The cratered planet has no atmosphere ; days are scorching hot and night , frigid. It has the greatest temperature extremes, raging from - -200c to 430 C. Its gravity is very week (compared to earth).

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