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 the smallest planet in our Solar System and the one closest to the Sun, with a rocky surface and temperatures that swing wildly between extremely hot and extremely cold. Understanding Mercury helps scientists learn how planets form near stars and how extreme environments can exist in space.

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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

Demonym: Mercurien
Area: 74800000
Distance from Earth: 217000000
Diameter: 4878
Radius: 2439.7
Mass: 330
Orbital period: 87.969
Image: Mercury in color - Prockter07 centered.jpg

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Commons category: Mercury (planet)
orbital eccentricity: 0.20563593
flattening: 0
Commons gallery: Mercury (planet)
semi-major axis of an orbit: 0.38709893
orbital inclination: 7.00497902
argument of periapsis: 29.124
longitude of ascending node: 48.33076593
Unicode character: ☿
synodic period: 115.88
albedo: 0.068
periapsis: 46001009
apoapsis: 0.4667008
magnetic moment: 40000000000000000000
surface gravity: 3.7278
mean anomaly: 174.796
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
IPA transcription: mɛʁˈkuːɐ̯
rotation period: 5097600

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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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