tell me about mercury?
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Here's a whole lot about the planet closest to the Sun in the Solar System:
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mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus neptune pluto
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Mercury has been observed for thousands of years, and the Babylonians are credited with mentioning it in writing for the first time some 3000 years ago.\n\n* Johann Hieronymus Schroeter was the first to observe the planet Mercury and record detailed drawings of Mercury's surface features. Schroeter lived from 1745 to 1816. Unfortunately, his sketches were not very accurate. \n\n* Streaks similar to the so-called "Martian Canals" were also seen on Mercury by Schiaparellit and Percival Lowell (1855-1916). \n\n* An astronomer by the name of Eugenios Antoniadi (1870-1944) charted the surface of Mercury in great detail. His maps were used for almost 50 years. He used one of the stronger telescopes of his time and found the canals to be optical illusions. \n\n* Mariner 10 provided a close look at Mercury which redrew earlier telescope charts and maps.
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mercury: .4 AU\nvenus: .7 AU\nEarth: 1 AU\nmars: 1.5 AU\njupiter 5.2 AU\nsaturn: 9.5 AU\nuranus: 19.2 AU\nneptune: 30.1 AU\npluto: 39.4 AU
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http://solarviews.com/\n\nAll the info about all the planets!
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Mercury is the only common metal liquid at ordinary temperatures and rarely occurs free in nature.  \n\nIt is a heavy, silvery white metal; a rather poor conductor of heat, as compared with other metals, and a fair conductor of electricity.  It easily forms alloys with many metals, such as gold, silver and time which are called amalgams.  \n\nThe metal is widely used laboratory work for making thermometers, barometers, diffusion ion pumps and many other instruments. Mercury should be handled with care because of the absorbing through the skin and can cause many problems (very serious ones).
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mercury \n\nIn chemistry, a heavy, silvery metallic element, a liquid at normal temperatures. Mercury expands or contracts rapidly in response to changes in temperature and therefore was once widely used in thermometers. \n\n\nThe term mercury is used figuratively in such expressions as “The mercury's rising” to mean that the temperature is going up.\n\nOr did you mean: Mercury (in Roman religion/planet nearest to the sun), Phoenix Mercury (WNBA Team), The Mercury (newspaper), mercury (plant), mercury (comics), Mercury
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Mercury is always pretty close to the Sun.\n\nIf Mercury is in Sagittarius, the Sun must be in Sagittarius as well, or in one of the adjacent constellations, Capricorn or Scorpio, since the orbit of Mercury is small.  The distance between Mercury and the Sun is not affected by which constellation they appear in---it can be near or relatively far from the Sun in any position along the ecliptic.
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The full electronic configuration of mercury is:\n1s2\n2s2 2p6\n3s2 3p6 3d10\n4s2 4p6 4d10 4f14\n5s2 5p6 5d10\n6s2
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The mercury probably doesn't have much value as it is probably impure and possibly contaminated being contained in a jar for an extended period of time. The most important concern is to NOT open the jar. Mercury is very poisonous and can be deadly in large amounts such as the one that you have. You should consult with someone to ensure that it is disposed of properly, and do not attempt to dispose of the metal yourself. So in short, the mercury isn't worth much, but it's such a large amount that you want to be very careful with it. Hope this helps!
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www.wikipedia.com\n\nType in mercury - note the distance and the greek symbol (which will look like a weird single letter)\n\nDo the same for venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune and if your teacher wants you to.. pluto.
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http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/mermaid.html\nGood luck!
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Mercury, the god of swiftness.\n\nHere is a picture of a 1942 dime:\nhttp://www.cmf5.com/headtails/Mercury/1942.htm
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Atmospheric characteristics \nAtmospheric pressure trace \nPotassium 31.7% \nSodium 24.9% \nAtomic Oxygen 9.5% \nArgon 7.0% \nHelium 5.9% \nMolecular Oxygen 5.6% \nNitrogen 5.2% \nCarbon dioxide 3.6% \nWater 3.4% \nHydrogen 3.2% \n\nThe planet has a large iron core which generates a magnetic field about 1% as strong as that of the Earth. Surface temperatures on Mercury range from about 90-700 K, with the subsolar point being the hottest and the bottoms of craters near the poles being the coldest.\n\nThe mean surface temperature of Mercury is 452 K (178.8 °C /353.9 °F), but it ranges from 90 K (-183.15 °C /-297.7 °F) to 700 K (426.85 °C /800 °F); by comparison, the temperature on Earth varies by only about 150 K (150 °C /270 °F). The sunlight on Mercury's surface is 6.5 times as intense as it is on Earth, with the solar constant having a value of 9.13 kW/m².\n\nMagnetosphere\nDespite its slow rotation, Mercury has a relatively strong magnetosphere, with 1% of the magnetic field strength generated by Earth. It is possible that this magnetic field is generated in a manner similar to Earth's, by a dynamo of circulating liquid core material. However, scientists are unsure whether Mercury's core could still be liquid,[5] although it could perhaps be kept liquid by tidal effects during periods of high orbital eccentricity. It is also possible that Mercury's magnetic field is a remnant of an earlier dynamo effect that has now ceased, with the magnetic field becoming "frozen" in solidified magnetic materials.
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Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
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Like the Earth, Mercury has an iron core. But Mercury's core occupies proportionately more (3/4) of the planet's diameter than Earth's does (about half). You can think of Mercury as a metal ball the size of the Moon surrounded by about 700 kilometers (430 miles) of rocky crust. The large relative size of Mercury's core makes it the most iron-rich planet in the solar system, with iron accounting for 65-70% of the planet's mass. Mercury's abundance of iron resulted from its position near the Sun. When the planets were forming out of the same cloud of gas and dust as the Sun, the temperatures in the warm inner regions of the primordial solar nebula were so high that iron-rich minerals were just about the only ones that could condense into solids. Farther away from the Sun, other minerals could also condense. Thus the iron content of the rocky planets in the solar system decreases with increasing distance from the Sun.\n\nMercury's iron core may also be responsible for one of the most surprising findings from Mariner 10 — the planet's weak magnetic field, 100 times weaker than Earth's. Astronomers and geologists are still trying to figure out what causes Mercury's field. In the case of the Earth, rapid rotation of its molten iron core generates electrical currents which produce the Earth's magnetic field. But Mercury is so small, astronomers had assumed its core had cooled and solidified. Plus, it rotates too slowly to generate a magnetic field the way the Earth does. Or so they thought. Perhaps Mercury's core is still partially liquid, or perhaps the magnetic field is "left over'' from an earlier time when the iron core was molten. Astronomers continue to work on this puzzle.
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My - Mercury\nVery - Venus\nEntertaining - Earth\nMother - Mars\nJust - Jupiter\nServed - Saturn\nUs - Uranus\nNine - Neptune\nPickles - Pluto