The Planet Mercury

BY: MIRON ANA-MARIA AND COTOFAN ARTUR

 General Information
 It takes Mercury aprox. 88
days to orbit around the sun
because it’s the smallest
planet and densest in or
solar system.
 You can find ice in the
deeper craters of the
planet, even though it’s the
closest to the sun.
 Mercury rotates in a way
that is unique in the Solar
System. It is locked with the
Sun in a 3:2 spin-orbit
resonance meaning that
relative to the fixed stars, it
rotates on its axis exactly
three times for every two
revolutions it makes around
the Sun.
Fun Facts
 They named them after their most important
gods. Because Mercury was the fastest
planet as it moved around the Sun, it was
named after the Roman messenger god
Mercury. Mercury was also the god of
travelers.
 Scientists think that a huge asteroid
slammed into Mercury about 4 billion years
ago, creating a giant crater about 960 miles
(1,545 km) across. Called the Caloris Basin,
the crater could fit the whole state of Texas
inside it. Researchers have calculated that
the asteroid that created the basin had to
have been about 60 miles (100 km) wide.
 Mercury's iron core takes up about 75
percent of the planet's radius. The huge
core has more iron in it than any other
planet's in the solar system.