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Mercury orbits the sun in 88 days because it is so close to the sun, 67,910000 KM from the it (to get the distance in miles divide it by 1.6 or .16 I forgot).

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Mercury orbits the sun because the sun is the closest to Mercury so they orbit

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it is closser to the sun wich makes it faster to orbit

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