1. Mercury
By: Patrick Halligan

2. Symbol / Name
Mercury’s symbol is the biological symbol for female and topped with horns. It is also the element symbol for Mercury (hg)
Mercury got its name from the romans and it means the “god of Commerce and travel” Also the planet got its name because it moves so fast around the sky.

3. Measurement
Mass-330,104,000,000,000,000,000,000kg.
Volume-60,827, km(3)
Density-5.427gmc(3)
Sink or Float- Sink, because the density is over 1
Gravity- 3.7 m/s (2)

4. Distances Order from sun- Sun, mercury.
Distance from sun- 46,001,009 km
Distance from Earth-0.61 AU

5. Orbit/Rotation Year- 0.241 Earth years Day- 58.646 Earth days
Note that the year on Mercury is longer than the day

6. Atmosphere
Mercury has just about no atmosphere and it is made up of oxygen, sodium, hydrogen, helium, and potassium

7. Temp. Minimum = -137’ C Minimum = -279’ F Maximum= 427’ C
Maximum= 801’ F

8. Appearance A Mercury has an impressive amount of craters
It has ridges, highlands, and mountains
Mercury looks like a big rounded piece of rock that has light spots making it look like it has a constellation on its surface.

9. Weather
Due to mercury’s lack of atmosphere it has just about no weather but it has a wild range in temperature as you can see on the temperature slide.

10. The Moons Of Mercury
The thing is mercury has no moons

11. Water On Mercury?
The facts of mercury basically rule it out but surprisingly there has been water found on mercury but in the form of ice because due the coldness of the ice poles there is ice at the bottoms of craters because they never see the sun in those craters.

12. What if, Human on mercury
Mercury would have a similar environment to the moon so the person would need a spacesuit because of the vacuum of space and a very special layer to protects them from the temperatures
Vaporized, No oxygen, Frozen, Burned, and Crushed (lack of atmosphere)

13. Interesting fact
A huge asteroid hit Mercury created a 1,300 KM crater in the Coloris Basin. The shockwave wrinkled the crust on the opposite side of Mercury creating hills.

14. bibliography http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/
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Samantha harvey Autum Burdick index.cfm
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