who is the smallest planet on solar system
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Mercury
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- Mercury is the smallest and most closely orbiting planet in the Solar System.
- It has the shortest orbit of all the planets around the Sun, taking 87.97 Earth days.
- It is called after Mercurius (Mercury), the Roman deity of trade, messenger of the gods, and mediator between gods and mankind, who corresponds to Hermes (the Greek god). Mercury, like Venus, circles the Sun as an inferior planet inside Earth's orbit, never exceeding 28 degrees from the Sun as seen from Earth.
- Because of its close closeness to the Sun, the planet may only be seen in twilight near the western horizon after sunset or near the eastern horizon before sunrise.
- It seems to be a brilliant star-like object at this time, although it is more difficult to see than Venus.
- From Earth, the planet, like Venus and the Moon, telescopically exhibits the whole spectrum of phases, which reoccur every 116 days.
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