2007-01-24 07:54:44 · 3 answers · asked by baby girl 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
58.65 Earth days
2007-01-24 08:02:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mercury rotates approximately every 59 days (I left out a fraction I didn't want to look up). So, technically that is the length of it's day.
However, the orbital path of Mercury is quite eccentric (for a planet), and the variation in it's speed and distance during it's orbit makes the sun come up, hesitate, go back down, then come up again for good. I don't know if all latitudes or longitudes experience that. It is in some ways similar to the apparent retrograde motion of the outer planets (in our sky) as we approach them, catch up, and recede from them in our own orbits.
2007-01-24 16:04:43 · answer #2 · answered by David A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
176 days.
2007-01-24 16:06:33 · answer #3 · answered by BDZot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋