Pic of the Day
Pic of the Day
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- Mercury's year is like 90 days. This is stupid.CanHasQBN
- Mercury rotates on it's axis three times every to orbits around the sunlocustsloth
- so every Mercury day (full rotation) takes 1.5 Mercury years (orbit around sun)locustsloth
- You're so Earth centric, CanHaz :)locustsloth
- Wait, switch that. Every Mercury yr (orbit around sun) lasts 1.5 Mercury days (rotation on axis)locustsloth
- wikipedia has one Mercury day equaling two Mercury years.aldebaran
- From wiki: "The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three rotations about its axis for every two orbits."locustsloth
- THAT'S NOT WHAT I COPIED!!!!locustsloth
- How fucked up is Christmas on Mercury then, Jeez...?mikotondria3
- Or maybe it is. Here's the rest: "It completes three rotations about its axis for every two orbits."locustsloth
- Xmas lasts about 6 minutes. Just long enough to unwrap everythinglocustsloth
- pluto??GeorgesII
- pluto aint recognised as a planet any more.Amicus
- uranus is the coldest planet...********
- Pluto will always be a planet in my eyes though.********
- Hi :)benfal99
- urth feels left outjaylarson