Solar System Earth Mercury Planet

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Solar system earth mercury planet.

A new model of the planets orbit shuffles things around calculating that earth s closest neighbor on average is actually mercury. It s a little bigger than earth s moon. Of the objects that orbit the sun directly the largest are the eight planets with the remainder being smaller objects the dwarf planets and small solar system bodies of the objects that orbit the sun indirectly the moons two are larger than the smallest planet. It is the closest planet to the sun but it s actually not the hottest.

It has a solid surface that is covered with craters like our moon. Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system. Mercury is also smaller albeit more massive than the largest natural satellites in the solar system ganymede and titan. It is the smallest planet in the solar system with an equatorial radius of 2 439 7 kilometres 1 516 0 mi.

In fact it says that every other planet in the solar. Mercury is one of four terrestrial planets in the solar system and is a rocky body like earth. The solar system is the gravitationally bound system of the sun and the objects that orbit it either directly or indirectly. Along with venus earth and mars mercury is one of the rocky planets.