15 Interesting Mercury Planet Facts and Details

There are many interesting Mercury planet facts and details to be known few of them are already known and few of them are yet to be discovered as mercury planet is close to the sun.

Its very impossible to reach there but our scientists and astronomers made it with messenger and few other projects and took images of mercury planet and here are the few 25 interesting mercury planet facts.

15 Interesting Mercury Planet Facts:

  1. Namesake: Messenger of Gods.
  2. Orbital Period: : 88 Days.
  3. Mean distance from Sun: : 57.0 Million Km.
  4. Orbital Eccentricity: : 0.206
  5. Orbital Inclination to Ecliptic: : 7.
  6. Inclination of Equator to Orbit: : 0.
  7. Rotation Period: : 58 days 39 months.
  8. Diameter: 4,879 Km.
  9. Mass: : 0.06 of Earths.
  10. Density: : 5.43g/cm3.
  11. Gravity: : 0.38 of Earths.
  12. Atmosphere: : Oxygen, Sodium, Helium.
  13. Temperature Range: : -183 degree Celsius (night) to +467 Degree Celsius (Day).
  14. Number of Moons: : 0.
  15. Number of Rings: : 0

Above are the few interesting facts and simple details structure to understand about the interesting mercury planet facts and there are also significant dates from year 1610 to 1975 from the date of first telescopic observations by Galileo a Italian astronomer.

The transits of important Mercury planet facts across the face of sun by French astronomer pierce Gassendi.

Italian astronomer discovered that mercury has phases which is an evidence that mercury planet circles the sun.

German astronomer first mass determination using the gravity effect on the comet Encke.

Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli produced the first map of Mercury surface features.

American Radio astronomers measured the mercury rotation period to be about 59 days.

Surveyor 7 took the first space craft picture of mercury from the lunar surface.

Marina 10 made the first flyby within 705 km of mercury.

Marine 10 also made its third and final flyby of mercury at 327 km.

These are some of the Interesting mercury planet facts.

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