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**James Sanderson** __ Mercury: A wonder among the stars __ How did Mercury it's name? Mercury is named after the roman god Mercury. Who discovered Mercury? Not one specific person but the discovery is traced back to the time of the babylonians. When was Mercury discovered? No exact date and time (known of in the ancient times). Where was Mercury discovered? in ancient tombs 1500s-1600s. What's Mercury's order from the sun?  Mercury is the first planet in order closest to the sun. What is Mercury's distance from the sun? Mercury's distance from the sun is 43,000,000 miles. What is Mercury's distance from Earth? Mercury's distance from Earth is 77,000,000 miles. What is the mass of Mercury? Metric: 330,104,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What is the volume of Mercury? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Metric: 330,827,208,724 kg3. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">How many days does it take for Mercury to orbit around the sun? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">It takes Mercury 90 days to orbit around the sun. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What is Mercury's perihelion? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Mercury's perihelion is 60 days. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What is Mercury's Equatorial Circumference? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Mercury' Equatorial Circumference is about 15,329 km. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What is Mercury's mean density? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Mercury's mean density is 5.427 glcm3. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What is Mercury's gravity? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">38% of the gravity on Earth. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What is Mercury's aphelion? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">70,000,000 (km). <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What is the length of one day on Mercury? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">1,407.504 hours. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What's Mercury's appearance? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Like the moon Mercury's surface contains of craters. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">But unlike the moon it lacks a smoothly covered surface. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Mercury is a brownish-silver planet. Mercury is also the smallest <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">planet. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Rings? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">N/A <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Satellites or moons? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">N/A <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What's Mercury's core composition? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Mercury's core composition is nearly all iron and it consists of <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">5% sulfur to keep the core from freezing. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What's Mercury's surface composition? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Mercury's surface composition consists of a large iron core which <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">is particularly molten. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What are mercury's major gases? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Mercury's major gases are hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What are mercury's minor gases? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Mercury's minor gases are argon, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">water vapor, xenon, krypton, and neon. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What is Mercury's weather? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Mercury's weather is very hot. Temperatures range from <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">170 degrees to 350 degrees. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What forms of water are found on mercury? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Craters at Mercury's poles contain water ice. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What are all human explorations of your planet? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">There have been three flybys by the Mariner 10 aircraft (1974-1975) <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">and two with the messenger probe (1991). <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What would happen to a human if they traveled to Mercury? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Because there's no air they would not be able to breathe. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">It would also depend on the time of day. But because of the very <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">high temperatures, ranging from 200 to 800 degrees, (hot enough <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">to melt lead) no human would be able to survive the conditions <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">without highly advanced suiting. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What are some problems and solutions to sending humans to Mercury? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">N/A <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What modifications would be needed for humans to live on Mercury? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Mercury would need modifications such as radiation shielding from <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">the sun, the atmosphere would need to be rich in oxygen, and a cooling <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">unit. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">How much would someone weigh on your planet? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">If someone weighed 90 pounds on Earth, they would weigh about 35 pounds <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">on Mercury <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">What are three interesting facts about Mercury? <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Three interesting facts about Mercury are: <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">-You can see Mercury with the naked eye. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">-Mercury has the most eccentric orbit. <span style="color: #cfa126; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">-The sun appears 2 and 1/2 times bigger than Earth.
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