... Mercury Faces the Sun. ... Mercury will pass directly between the Earth and the Sun. ... called a ``transit'', though you can think of it as an eclipse of the Sun by Mercury ...
... lead singer of Queen was named Freddie Mercury, and (for those not familiar with the ... put up a bubble that said "Galileo probed Jupiter, not Mercury," which is true ...
... it had gained so much mass it was the size of Mercury (4900 km or 3000 miles across ... Also, a planet the size of Mercury would alter the orbits of other planets. ... spent in the inner solar system) it gains enough mass to equal the mass of Mercury ...
... Unlike Venus, or Mercury, or any other object in the sky besides the Sun (which is too bright to look at anyway), it is the only nearby object we can see on which our unaided eyes can actually pick out features (in astronomical terms, our eyes can resolve ...
... Give up? Let's count: Mercury, Venus, Earth (ha, I told you this was a trick question [Note added July 9, 1999: D'oh! ... Note (July 9, 1999): The seven planets of the ancients were Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Sun and the Moon. ...
... In the story I'm working on, I have a group of people (Humans) living on a mercury sized planet orbiting a MO V star. ... I have my doubts. Mercury, for example, rotates three times every time it goes around its orbit twice. ...
... I could find on record involved the planets Mercury through Saturn; in 1952 BC they ... Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, moves the quickest, and Pluto the slowest. ...