mercury

== =Top 10 cool facts and the planet of Mercury:=

10.Mercury is the smallest planet
//( Mercury is the smallest planet of all real planets in the galaxy)//

9.It has no moons
//( Mercury and Venus are the only planets with no moons )//

8.Its speed is about 23 times faster than a high speed jet
//(which is about 19,000 miles an hour)//

7. Planet is shrinking because there is ice in middle of planet
//(the ice in the middle is compacting, making huge cliffs called scarps.)//

6. There is a crater the size Texas
(a huge crater hit mercury causing there to be a crater the size of Texas.)

5. Mercury is 2.5 times smaller then Earth
( so that is like one fourth of the earth cut apart.)

4. One year on Mercury is 88 days on Earth
( Mercury moves very fast.)

3. Mercury is scared by millions of meteorites
( A million meteorites is a lot of meteorites.)

2. 1000 degree temperature difference between night and day.
( at day the tempeture is 800 degrees and at night it is -270 degrees, that is a 1000 degree tempature difference.)

1. Mercury has a 100 mile long scarp and its 1 mile high
.//( A Scarp is caused by the shrinking of Mercury's core. A 100 miles is about from st.micael to the canadian border.)//

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