MERCURY

HISTORY OF MERCURY

• Astronomers had traditionally used this symbol for mercury, and it is the medieval alchemical sign for the element mercury

DISCOVERY

MERCURY

• Mercury's size is 1,516 miles around
• Mercury was discovered in 265 BC
• Mercury does not have an atmosphere

FACTS ABOUT MERCURY

Mercury's distance from the sun is 0.38

Mercury does not have any weather because it doesn't have an atmosphere, but it does have a lot of craters like our moon

FACTS ABOUT MERCURY

• Mercury rotates around the sun 36 million miles a year or 88 earth days

INTRESTING FACTS ABOUT MERCURY

• Mercury can be seen from Earth passing across the face of the sun

FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Temprature range of mercury is 184*c to 427*c
• The density of mercury is 5,427 kg/m^3
• The composition is 13.56 grams per cubic centimeters

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