Because that is the distance is has to travel at the speed it orbits the Sun.
It takes 88 days for mercury to complete an orbit.
Mercury's orbit of the sun takes 87.969 days.
A year on Mercury takes 87.97 Earth days; it takes 87.97 Earth days for Mercury to orbit the sun once.
Mercury
Mercury takes 87.969 days to orbit the sun.
Mercury rotates in about 57.8 days and takes about 88 days to orbit the sun. 176 days on earth is 1 day on mercury
Yes.
Mercury takes 88 earth days to orbit the sun. 88 days, is a little less than 3 Earthmonths to orbit the Sun once.it takes 87 earth day to complete a year or one time around the sun
It takes Mercury 87 days to orbit the sun.
Mercury takes almost exactly 88 Earth days to orbit the Sun.
88 days
Mercury takes 87.97 days to orbit the Sun, and there are 24 hours in a day.