Mercuryby Sophia Lisaius

                                                                                

                 In 1700 to 1680 B.C. mecury was found by the Sumerians, who lived in mesopotamia. They belived that the planets where houses of the gods. IN 729 BC the assyrians called  Mecury             Nebo, or Nabu. In greece the astornimer Timochaaris named Mecury Hermes, and the Vulcan "planet", Apollo

 

       (Astron.) one of the planets in our solar system, being the                      Before the 19th century, some atronimers belive that there once was     

    nearest to the sun, from which its mean distance is 36,000,000 miles.                                          Another planet, known to some as Vulcan closer to the Sun

    Its period is 88 days, and its diameter is 3,000 miles. *                                                                then mercury. The reason for this was the Perihelion Process.

                                                      - Websters Dictionary                             This discovery was help solved by the Mariner 10, the only spacecraft

                                                                                                                     Approch the planet, which maped about 45% of the planets surface. 

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 .  * (Mecury Has a revolution period of 88 day, its year has the lenght of 88 earth days)  

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        Named after the fastest Roman god, mercury is the closets planet to the sun.

                      The Difficulty it took to Reasearch the planet was Much, it took many generations, until newer

                           telescopes came out. The Reason for this trouble was the closeness to the                                                                              

                                    sun, at a mear 28 degrees away. the planet moves so quickly that it can be

                                        seen at night, and in the morning.                            

                                                                              Mecury has a huge range on tempuratue, from (-270F) to 800F or                                                                                                                                 (-168)C to 427C                                                                                                                                                                  

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     Earths density is caused mostly of gravitaional pull. Mecury relates most to                                                                                                                                                                    the moon. They both are old, have no techtonic plates, mecury by itself has a                                                                                                                                                                                         large iron core and towards the center, at the core may be molton.

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 .In order(above) The Sun, Mecury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto( a dwarf planet)

 .Mecury is coverd with craters, some are volcanos which have no evidence of being active.

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 The small black dot is mecury, not a sun spot which many thought it was. The distance from the sun never exceeds 28 degrees

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