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Mercury  Leah Jay, Chris Miller , and Kirsten Gager

**How did Mercury get it's name?** Mercury 's name was based on a Roman god.

**Who discovered Mercury? When? How? Where?** Mercury was mentioned by ancient Babylonians who mention it in writing some 3000 years ago, but since Mercury is a classical planet, it isn't possible to know who discovered it. **What are Mercury's distances and orders from the sun and Earth?** Mercury is the closest planet to the sun at 4,500,000 meters away. Mercury is 46 million kilometers away from Earth.

**What are Mercury's measurements?** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mercury 's mass is 3.30 e 23 kilograms. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mercury 's volume is 6.083 x 10^10.

<span style="color: #096aaf; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**What is Mercury's orbit (How long does it take to orbit around the sun)?** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It takes <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mercury 88 days to orbit the sun, which may sound quick but is actually quite slow because the length of one day on <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mercury is <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">176 Earth days. So it would take 15,488 Earth days for a single year on <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mercury !

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mercury's Perihelon and Aphelion <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mercury's Air and Surface Composition <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mercury's Temperature, Wind Speed, and Surface Pressure <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Human Explorations and Water Forms on Mercury

<span style="color: #096aaf; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What are some more of Mercury's measurements? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mercury 's equatorial circumference is 15,329 km. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mercury 's mean density is 5.427 g. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mercury 's gravity is 38% of the gravity here on earth.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mercury's Cool Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">References: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Universe Today] [|NOAA] [|Wiki Answers] [|Space]