... The terrestrial planets- Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars- are relatively small and ... Distance (from Sun) . Diameter . Mercury . 57,910,000 km...0.39 A.U. 4,800 km . ...
... Last month, for instance, The San Jose Mercury News reported that the James Irvine Foundation's assets had fallen 25 percent, to $1.2 billion, since June 2000. ...
... Additional background information and online resources Women in Astronomy: An Introductory Bibliography From the ASP Mercury magazine: There are about 15 African-American professional astronomers in the United States. ...
... These "stars" were actually the five closest planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. ... for the Moon, Tuesday for Mars (Tiv in German), Wednesday for Mercury (Woden in German), Thursday for Jupiter (Thor in German ...
... One of the biggest surprises in the field of extra-solar planets was the discovery of "hot Jupiters," a mysterious class of planets with masses similar to Jupiter but orbiting closer to their stars than Mercury. ...
... All six of the BND-H and HXDA FPCs are supplied in parallel so that their gas torr using a mercury-filled pressures are identical to within 0.1 torr. ...