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- Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:33 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Question about Mercury Solar Day
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Question about Mercury Solar Day
I have a question about the length of the Mercury Solar Day. I homeschool my children and we have been studying Mercury for the last 4 weeks. Every book we checked out from the library and even our astronomy textbook taught us that a day on Mercury was 59 earth days and a year was 88 earth days. Yet...