The Inner Planet Mercury

Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 88 days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three rotations about the axis for every two orbits. The perihelion of Mercury’s orbit precesses around the Sun at an excess of 43 arcseconds per century; a phenomenon that was explained in the 20th century by Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.Mercury is bright when viewed from Earth, ranging from −2.0 to 5.5 in apparent magnitude, but is not easily seen as its greatest angular separation from the Sun is only 28.3°. Since Mercury is normally lost in the glare of the Sun, unless there is a solar eclipse, Mercury can only be viewed in morning or evening twilight.

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25 Responses to “The Inner Planet Mercury”

  1. themooddisorders says:

    shouldnt we blow …
    shouldnt we blow mercury up already?

  2. pschodog3 says:

    @suhailsheikh
    How …

    @suhailsheikh
    How did the creator arise from nothing?
    You would probably say he was already there, but others say those planets were already there. Your logic is flawed. Verbally combat me through text instead of slamming your head against the keyboard.

    Aren’t you too old for an imaginary friend anyways?

  3. cy2tec says:

    mercury is boring …
    mercury is boring planet

  4. jalopotan says:

    id weigh like -20 …
    id weigh like -20 on mucurey o.o

  5. AndromedaChao2 says:

    This planet is very …
    This planet is very hard to spot since it is so close to the sun and is most often in the sun’s glare. It only takes some luck to actually see Mercury when it is at greatest elongation. I ended up seeing this planet when I was observing Venus as a tiny point of light just after sunset.

  6. joeelipo says:

    Always is wonderful …
    Always is wonderful any good information about any planet when must of us don’t know anything about.
    I thanks very much for this great video.
    And for those who talks bad or good about this video I can tell that there are natural laws about the creation of the universe that nobody can’t refuse .
    Please let the good human’s mind to find out all the answers about the universe creation and civilization to judge unsustainable matter.
    Thanks for this informative video.

  7. Jomigz08 says:

    d ko maintindihan
    d ko maintindihan

  8. Jomigz08 says:

    d ko maintindihan
    d ko maintindihan

  9. cletusinterruptus says:

    @jetsonic69

    @jetsonic69
    whatthewhat? in whose calendar is it 2014 on mercury? meaning # of their years since their zero-year? that would put their zero-year in earth’s 1525. what happened in 1525? oh wait.. Mercurian Jesus was born?!
    or maybe you’re trying to say earth’s julian calendar as seen from mercury has relativistically gained 2 earth years over the lifetime of the solar system? which is of course false, time passes more slowly, not faster, on mercury
    so i guess i’m gonna go with space-jesus.

  10. Sparkz1607 says:

    (Also,)

    2012 is …
    (Also,)

    2012 is just another year. The world is just as likely to end today than in 2012, so shut yer yaps. :3

  11. Sparkz1607 says:

    *Raises my teacup*

    *Raises my teacup*

    Let us speak about SCIENCE!

  12. zamboke9 says:

    yea but 2010 in …
    yea but 2010 in earth days not space.they so called say in 2012 but i have a question,how the does the astroid know when its time to”destroy earth”to me its all bullshit about the world ending in 2010

  13. pureevilfnord says:

    @suhailsheikh Go …
    @suhailsheikh Go play with Jesus, the grownups are talking about science.

  14. suhailsheikh says:

    how can you make …
    how can you make somehting out of nothingg?
    only the creator can answer that

  15. poomanonfire says:

    Derp derp, derpa …
    Derp derp, derpa derp!

  16. crisnuelramirez says:

    WHAT ARE YOU?
    you …

    WHAT ARE YOU?
    you are such a loser! DO YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE? DAH!

  17. crisnuelramirez says:

    I know GOD created …
    I know GOD created it!
    I HATE YOU? are you dumb?
    WE HAVE EARTH! why do we have do live there?

  18. softshock9 says:

    A black sky in the …
    A black sky in the daytime would be eerie

  19. jetsonic69 says:

    Planet Mercury is …
    Planet Mercury is now already in the year 2014 …..wasnt 2012 supposed to destroy everything in the universe?? If this planet has time traveled faster than planet Earth..then that proves no black holes came for Mercury and no end of the world event will come for Earth either :)

  20. greggzccfclfc says:

    How likely is it …
    How likely is it for an asteroid to strike earth that big?

  21. miStiKredum says:

    this is awesome ,, …
    this is awesome ,, maybe one day ppl might be able to set up a base there ,, obviously it would have to be underground , and it could be like some sort of prison like in the movie , ” the chronicles of riddick”

  22. Garik5991 says:

    угоо
    угоо

  23. dvelts15 says:

    oh yeah it …
    oh yeah it definitly has. you were there when it happened so you know what you are talking about. *much sarcasm intended*

  24. killerchironex says:

    @amicrowaveoven …
    @amicrowaveoven because god din’t make that planet

  25. clnmyjts says:

    sounds like the …
    sounds like the moon to me???????

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