Mercury

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Mercury
By Laura Allen and Brooke Creamer
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Important Information

• Mercury is the first planet from the Sun.
• Its Revolution Time is approximately 88 Earth
  days, and
• its Rotation Time is approximately 58 earth
  days.
• The size of Mercury is 3,000 miles in diameter.
• It has no moons, and its atmosphere contains a
  mixture
• of Helium and Hydrogen.
• Mercury is an inner gas planet.
• Its distance from the Sun is 58 million
  kilometers.

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Other Important Information

• 1 day 176 Earth days and 1 year 88 earth
  days
• Has no satellites
• Explored by Mariner 10
• So hot it could melt a tin pan.
• Roman name- named after Mercury, the swift
  messenger/ Hermes
• Second smallest planet in our solar system
• About the same size as Earths moon
• Covered with mountains, craters, ridges, and
  valleys.
• Has no rings
• Less than half the size of Earth
• Weather conditions are 950F at the hottest and
  -300F at its coldest
• Its gravity is .32 it differs .62 from Earth

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Works CitedInformation and Pictures
Mercury

• http//kids.nineplanets.org/title.htm
• http//starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/sola
  r_system_level1/planets.html
• http//www.dustbunny.com/afk/planets/
• http//www.frontiernet.net/kidpower/planets.html
• http//www.kids-and-space.com/
• http//www.windows.ucar.edu/
• http//www.bnsc.gov.uk/assets/channels/education/a
  e/Mercury_Surface.jpg
• http//www.download-3d-screensaver.com/screenshots
  /PlanetMercury.jpg