Mercury

Avery Messer

Mrs. Erb

3rd Grade

Mercury

• Distance from the sun: 58 million km

• Rotation (1 day):

About 59 Earth days

• Revolution (1 year):

About 88 Earth days

Mercury

• Planet diameter:

4,879 km• Gas or rock planet?

a rock planet• How many moons

and/or rings?

Mercury has no moons or rings.

Mercury

• Atmosphere:

A thin atmosphere

• Temperature:

279 F

Mercury

Interesting Facts

1. Messenger, a spacecraft, will fly by Mercury twice in 2008.

2. Mercury does not always look round to people on Earth.

3. It is the smallest planet in the solar system.

Bibliography

• Mercury, Dana Rau

• Mercury, Elaine Landau

• Our Solar System, Seymour Simon