Mercury topic

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Mercurio,
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Mercury (pronounced ) is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system (since Pluto was re-labelled as a dwarf planet), orbit the Sun once every 88 days. Mercury is bright when viewed from Earth, ranging from −2.0 to 5.5 in apparent magnitude, but is not easily seen as its greatest angular separation from the Sun (greatest elongation) is only 28.3°: It can only be seen in morning and evening twilight. Comparatively little is known about it; the first of two spacecraft to approach... full article at wikipedia

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