How many days in Mercury?

Answer 1

Hey visit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28planet%29

Answer 2

There are 88 Earth days in a Mercury year. But because a Mercury day is MUCH longer than an Earth day, there are only one and a half (1.5) Mercury days in a Mercury year.

Answer 3

It used to be wrongly thought that mercury kept one face towards the sun giving a constant day one side and a constant night the other

Answer 4

Mercury revolves around the sun very quickly, but rotates around its axis very, very slowly. One day on Mercury (sunrise to sunrise) is longer than one year on Mercury (one orbit around the Sun).

Mercurian Year: A year on Mercury takes 87.97 Earth days; it takes 87.97 Earth days for Mercury to orbit the sun once.

Mercurian Sidereal Day: Each sidereal day on Mercury takes 58.65 Earth days; it takes Mercury 58.65 days (2/3's of its year) to rotate around its axis once. One day on Mercury seems to last two Mercurian years (or 176 Earth days), i.e., sunrise to sunrise. It is daytime for one Mercurian year, and nighttime for one Mercurian year. (It used to be thought that Mercury always kept the same side side towards the sun, but this is not true.)

A point on Mercury that is directly facing the Sun will point in the same direction after one rotation (59 days = 2/3 of Mercury's orbital period), but that point will no longer be facing the Sun. That point will return to the same position in three rotations of the planet during which it will orbit the sun twice (or 176 Earth days).

Answer 5

it takes about 88 days earth days for mercury to orbit the Sun, if my memory serves me right

Answer 6

A year on Mercury is 0.241 Earth years or 87.97 Earth days.
A day on Mercury is 58.646 Earth days or 1407.5 hours

Answer 7

?????????? what do you mean? it takes 56 days for mercury to orbit the sun

Answer 8

A whole week of Sundays.

Answer 9

You could have saved points by asking one question.

Answer 10

Orbital period (days) 87.969