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Mercury is a rocky planet and is too close to the sun to retain much of an atmosphere, much less become a gas giant.

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What is mercury's gas giant?

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Mercury a gas giant?

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Why doesnt the gas on a gas giant escape into space as it have on mercury?

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Is mercury has giant structure?

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Why doesn't the gas on a giant escape into space as it has on mercury?

It feels bad about how ugly it looks stupid. DAH