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.

Solar system earth mercury planet.

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. Along with venus earth and mars mercury is one of the rocky planets. It has a solid surface that is covered with craters like our moon. From the surface of mercury the sun would appear more than three times as large as it does when viewed from earth and the sunlight would be as much as seven times brighter.

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. It is the closest planet to the sun but it s actually not the hottest. Mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus neptune and then the possible.

The solar system is the gravitationally bound system of the sun and the objects that orbit it either directly or indirectly. Despite its proximity to the sun mercury is not the hottest planet in our solar system that title belongs to nearby venus thanks to its dense atmosphere. It s a little bigger than earth s moon. Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system.