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MERCURY | FUN FACTS ABOUT PLANETS | science for kids | solar system | space | SafireDream
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Did you know, that all of the planets, except for Earth and Uranus, were named after Roman gods and goddesses? MERCURY – is the smallest planet in our solar system and the closest to the Sun. Mercury is only slightly larger than Earth's Moon. From the surface of Mercury, the Sun would appear more than three times as large as it does when viewed from Earth, and the sunlight would be as much as seven times brighter. Mercury has no moons. It has a solid surface that is covered with craters. This small planet spins around slowly compared to Earth, so one day lasts a long time = 59 Earth days! But a year on Mercury goes by fast. Because it’s the closest planet to the sun, it doesn’t take very long to go all the way around. Only 88 Earth days. If you lived on Mercury, you’d have a birthday every three months! In greek mythlogy Mercury was Hermes, the messenger of gods.
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Great fun facts! And did you know in the Christian story Paul the little was also called Saul … I guess you could say Saul was little…a Solly. Well the Greeks in Derbe and Lystra believed this small person was the God Hermes come to life on Earth as the chief messenger of the Gods!!! But some people thought this was terrible because Hermes was a tricky messenger and because as Saul, Paul turned the household of Stephen into a stone pillar!!! And they said … how silly! Everyone knows people cannot be stones or planets! What do you think? Was Paul aka Saul and Stephen big story tellers who knew stuff about heaven about the universe?