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8 Things about Mercury planet | The First planet in our solar system

The Mercury: Inner most planet from the sun. The Mercury planet is smallest planet and innermost planet of our solar system. The name Mercury is after the Greek god Hermes, translated into Latin Mercurius Mercury, He is the god of commerce, the messenger of the gods and mediator between gods and mortals. As the Mercury is the closest planet from the sun, it has the fastest speed of revolution around the sun. Because of the sun’s very strong gravitational force, this gives Mercury speed. The Mercury is speeding along at about 29 miles per second around the sun and completing each orbit in just 88 Earth’s days. The Mercury planet rotates about its axis very slowly, taking nearly 59 Earth days to complete one rotation. As a result, a day on Mercury is about 176 Earth day . The speed of planet gives it the nickname as Swift Planet . The Mercury: Smallest Planet in solar system. ...

Dwarf Planets in our solar system | Makemake, Haumea, Gonggong

What is the Dwarf Planet? According to the International Astronomical Union, the dwarf planets are the celestial bodies that orbits the sun, has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, has enough mass to assume a nearly round shape and is not a moon. The number of dwarf planets in our solar system is unknown. Now the question arises that why the Pluto is not a planet? The Pluto has enough mass to assume a nearly round shape, also orbits the sun but the Pluto has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. There are six known dwarf planets, the Pluto demoted as a Dwarf Planet, Eris the reason behind the demotion of the Pluto, Ceres the closest dwarf planet from the sun and from the Earth, the Makemake fourth dwarf planet, the Haumea fifth discovered dwarf planet and the Gonggong sixth dwarf planet with Chinese name. I explained the Pluto, Eris and Ceres in my previous article. 1] Makemake dwarf planet ...

5 Things about Venus planet | Hottest planet in our solar system

The Venus Planet The planet Venus is the second planet from the sun . The Venus name of planet is named after the beautiful Roman goddess because of planet’s brightness and shinning appearance in the sky. After our moon, Venus is the second brightest object in night sky. The distance from the sun is 108 million km or 67 million miles. The planet is hotter than Mercury Planet because of Venus atmosphere and Venus temperature. The color of the Venus is yellowish but at night it appears as bright white to eyes. The Venus rotates around its axis clockwise, unlikely the other planets in solar system . The Venus rotates around its axis very slowly. The planet takes 243 Earth days to rotate at once around axis and orbit around the sun requires 224.7 Earth days. That means the day of Venus is longer than year. This is the only planet of solar system on which the day is longer than the year . The Venus is closest to the Earth and called as Twins planet. The two planets are nearly the sam...

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