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∙ 15y agoMercury. It is closest to the Sun and therefore the Suns gravity acts upon it with more strength. It takes 88 days for Mercury to revolve around the sun.
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∙ 12y agoThe planet with the shortest year around the Sun is also the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury.
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∙ 6y agoMercury. Since it is closest to the Sun, it takes much shorter to orbit the Sun once (about 3 months).
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∙ 12y agoMercury- 88 days.
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What innner planet has the shortest year?
What inner planet has the shortest year
Which planet has the second shortest year?
Mercury is the planet that has the shortest year. This is because it is the nearest planet to the sun. It only takes 88 Earth days for Mercury to complete one orbit.
What is one orbit of the sun by a planet is called?
A year. Each planet in a solar system has a year of different length, equal to the time it takes for one complete orbit around its sun.
Which planet of our solar system has the fastest rotation period and hence the shortest day less than 10 earth hours?
Saturn's year lasts 29.5 Earth years, however Saturn's day lasts only 10.6 Earth Hours. That is less than half of one Earth day.
What planets days are longer than your year?
Venus "sidereal day" is longer than its year. Mercury's "solar day" is longer than its year. However, there is no planet in our solar system with a day longer than our year on Earth.
Which planet in your solar system has the shortest year?
Mercury
What planet in our solar system has the shortest year?
Mercury has the shortest year, lasting 88 Earth days.
Which planets has the longest year and which planet has the shortest?
(The year is proportional to the distance to the power 1.5) In our solar system, Mercury has the shortest year. Neptune has the longest.
Which planet in the solar system has the shortest years?
Mercury. Mercury takes 88 days to go around the sun, so its `year` is 88 solar days.
What innner planet has the shortest year?
What inner planet has the shortest year
What is the name of the planet that has a year of 9 earth days?
No known object in the solar system circles the sun every 9 days. The body with the shortest known orbital period is the planet Mercury, with a 'year' of 88 earth days.
How does the distance affect the time it takes a planet to orbit?
Yes. The grater the distance, the longer an object takes to orbit.
Which planet in the solar system has the same amount of days in a year as earth?
saturn
Which planet's year is the shortest?
MercuryIn this solar system, that would be Mercury at about 88 Earth days. There have been planets discovered around other stars which blaze around their suns in a matter of hours instead of days.
What planet is more than a light year away from the earth?
Anything out of our solar system.
Which planet is the furthhest from the sun?
The furthest planet in our solar system from the sun is Sedna. It would take about 10,500 to 12,000 year to get there!
What planet has the shortest year out of mercury or earth?
Mercury has the shortest year. It's year is about 88 Earth days.
