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Mercury

Mercury has the most elliptical orbit of all planets in our solar system. Due to extreme gravitational forces of the Sun, you need to use Einstein's physics to calculate the orbit, Newton's physics does not yield accurate results.

		Mercury	Earth
Distance from the Sun	real	0.387 AU	1.000 AU
	in scale	124.8 m	322.4 m
	light from Sun reaches in	3 m 13 s	8 m 19 s
Distance variability from the Sun	real	0.307 AU to 0.467 AU	0.983 AU to 1.016 AU
	in scale	99.1 m to 150.5 m	317.0 m to 327.4 m
	light from Sun reaches in	2 m 33 s to 3 m 53 s	8 m 11 s to 8 m 27 s
Diameter	real	4 878 km	12 742 km
	as a multiple of our Moon	1.40 x	3.67 x
	in scale	10.51 mm	27.46 mm
Orbit period	around Sun	88.0 days	365.3 days
Movement in a day	degrees	4.1 °	1.0 °
	in our scale	910 cm	554 cm
Mass	real	3.300*10²³ kg	5.972*10²⁴ kg
	as a multiple of our Moon	4.49x	81.3x

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