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Venus bigger than Mercury? |
Yes,
Venus is bigger than Mercury. Mercury has a diameter of 4,878 km, Venus
has a diameter of 12,104 km.
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How was mercury made?
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Mercury was made in a similar way to the other
planets in the Solar System. The Solar System came from a spinning cloud
of gas and dust (known as matter). Most of this matter went to the middle
of the spinning cloud and formed the Sun. The rest of it went on formed
the planets. Over billions of years, the matter clumped together with
other matter, until it formed solid objects. The objects got bigger and
bigger as they were clumped with other objects. As their gravity got
stronger, it enabled the objects to form as spheres. There may have been
many more spheres than there are now, but they collided with other spheres
and formed the planets.
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Katie
and Kayla Wynn asked:
From
what I have heard is that Mercury can get a lot hotter then Venus because
it is closer to the Sun is this true? I would really like to find
out because my little sister is doing a project on Mercury like how I did
in third grade. This would really help us both.
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