Mercury was discovered visually by looking at the sky shortly before sunrise or shortly after sunset. It was discovered in antiquity.
it got discoverd in 1522 by a jerman soilger that saw it in war.
No one knows the name or tribe of the person who first recognized either the planet Mercury or the element mercury.Mercury as planet:The motions of the planet Mercury were recorded by several ancient civilizations, and our current name for it comes from the Roman god. It is not known who first charted Mercury, but it was no later than the 14th century BC, when an unknown Assyrian astronomer labeled the planet. Mercury as element:Mercury is found in Egyptian tombs that date from 1500 BC.
The planet Mercury has no natural satellites.
because the god mercury was fast and since the planet mercury was fast the name was perfect. The name of the god Mercury was the Roman name for the Greek god Hermes. It is doubtful if Julius Caesar named the planet as it had been called either Hermes or Mercury for hundreds of years before Caesar.
Mercury is known from many thousands years; a discoverer is not known.
mercury got it's name from the roman god of commerce
Planet Mercury was not discovered, it has been known to exist for thousands of years.
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what is unique about the astronomical body of planet Mercury and why is it important in the universe?When was the planet Mercury discovered?
The planet Mercury was discovered around 3,500 years ago, Unfortunately the name of the person who discovered it was not recorded.
There is no actual date of when the planet Mercury was discovered. The planet was first recorded by a Babylonian astrologer but it was called Apollo then.
No natural satellites of Mercury have been discovered.
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someone named howard Lynn discovered it in a rocket ship
The first known recorded evidence of planet Mercury was in 1000BC
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and because of this, it can only be seen at twilight. The planet was discovered in 14th century BC and it has no known satellites.
it comes to our attention that the ancient planet of mercury was discovered by our amazingly advanced elders, the bablyonians, over three thousand years ago. =<(