Mercury

Also known as Sol I, Hermes, Sol b, Sol 1, Planet Mercury, ☿

first planet from the Solar System and smallest among all, tellurian and with extreme temperatures

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Mercury is a planet that orbits the Sun. It is named after the Roman god Mercury, who is identified with Hermes. The planet has an atmosphere and possesses a magnetic field. Its radius is 2439.7, and its mass is 330. The object has an orbital eccentricity of 0.20563593 and a flattening of 0.

Mercury completes an orbit in 87.969 days, with a synodic period of 115.88. Its semi-major axis is 57909176, and its periapsis is 46001009. The orbital inclination is 7.00497902, with an argument of periapsis of 29.124 and a longitude of ascending node of 48.33076593. The albedo is 0.068. The Unicode character for Mercury is ☿. It is described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.

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Research

63,150 papers

The toxicology of mercury and its chemical compounds.ReviewCritical reviews in toxicology · 2006Clarkson TW, Magos LDOI: 10.1080/10408440600845619
Mercury toxicity and treatment: a review of the literature.ReviewJournal of environmental and public health · 2012Bernhoft RADOI: 10.1155/2012/460508
Mercury toxicity.Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology · 2012Rocha JB, Aschner M, Dórea JG et al.DOI: 10.1155/2012/831890
Toxicity of mercury: Molecular evidence.ReviewChemosphere · 2020Yang L, Zhang Y, Wang F et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125586
Toxicity of mercury.ReviewJournal of human hypertension · 1999Langford N, Ferner RDOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1000896
Mercury poisoning.ReviewCurrent problems in pediatrics · 2000Ozuah PODOI: 10.1067/mps.2000.104054
Mercury and mercurials.ReviewBritish medical bulletin · 1975Magos LDOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a071293
Mercury toxicity reduced by selenium.ReviewNutrition reviews · 1973DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1973.tb05145.x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: inferior planet
Has part: atmosphere of Mercury
Named after: Hermes
Demonym: Mercurien
Area: 74800000
Highest point: Caloris Montes
Parent body: Sun
Child body: Mercury's moon
Distance from Earth: 217000000
Diameter: 4878
Radius: 2439.7
Mass: 330
Orbital period: 87.969
Image: Mercury in color - Prockter07 centered.jpg
Has use: colonization of Mercury

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Commons category: Mercury (planet)
topic's main category: Category:Mercury (planet)
orbital eccentricity: 0.20563593
flattening: 0
Commons gallery: Mercury (planet)
semi-major axis of an orbit: 0.38709893
described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
orbital inclination: 7.00497902
argument of periapsis: 29.124
longitude of ascending node: 48.33076593
Unicode character: ☿
synodic period: 115.88
albedo: 0.068
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
has characteristic: Mercury's magnetic field
periapsis: 46001009
apoapsis: 0.4667008
magnetic moment: 40000000000000000000
surface gravity: 3.7278
mean anomaly: 174.796
epoch: J2000.0
volume as quantity: 60830000000
density: 5.427
right ascension: 281.01
declination: 61.414
temperature: 700
apparent magnitude: 1.9
angular diameter: 13
Stack Exchange tag: astronomy.stackexchange.com/tags/mercury
topic has template: Template:GeoTemplate/mercury
IPA transcription: mɛʁˈkuːɐ̯
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Astronomy
rotation period: 5097600

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Encyclopedic overview

Apparent magnitude −2.48 to +7.25 Absolute magnitude (H) −0.4 Angular diameter 4.5–13″ Atmosphere Surface pressure trace (≲ 0.5 nPa) Composition by volume atomic oxygen

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