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Mercury has the shortest orbit and moves most quickly around the sun because it's the closest planet to our neighborhood star. If it moved any slower, it would spiral into the sun and disappear. If it moved faster, it might extend its elliptical orbit farther from the Sun, where conversely it would also move more slowly.

If a planet farther out moved at the speed of Mercury, it would arc out of its orbit and disappear from the solar system.

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