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The resonance makes a single solar day (the length between two meridian transits of the Sun) on Mercury last exactly two Mercury years, or about 176 Earth days. [111] Mercury's orbit is inclined by 7 degrees to the plane of Earth's orbit (the ecliptic), the largest of all eight known solar planets. [112]
As viewed from Earth during the year, the Sun appears to slowly drift along an imaginary path coplanar with Earth's orbit, known as the ecliptic, on a spherical background of seemingly fixed stars. [5] Each synodic day, this gradual motion is a little less than 1° eastward (360° per 365.25 days), in a manner known as prograde motion.
The Earth's motion does not determine this value for other planets because an Earth observer is not orbited by the moons in question. For example, Deimos's synodic period is 1.2648 days, 0.18% longer than Deimos's sidereal period of 1.2624 d. [citation needed]
176 days [4] Venus: −243.0226 days [ii] [5] −243 d 0 h 33 m: −116.75 days [6] Earth: 0.99726968 days [3] [iii] 0 d 23 h 56 m 4.0910 s: 1.00 days (24 h 00 m 00 s) Moon: 27.321661 days [7] (equal to sidereal orbital period due to spin-orbit locking, a sidereal lunar month) 27 d 7 h 43 m 11.5 s: 29.530588 days [7] (equal to synodic orbital ...
Orbit eccentricity causes the planet/Sun distance to change during the year: ... if the year duration in Earth days is different. ... Mercury: 0.240846 87.9691 days 0 ...
Another way to understand this difference is to notice that, relative to the stars, as viewed from Earth, the position of the Sun at the same time each day appears to move around Earth once per year. A year has about 365.24 solar days but 366.24 sidereal days. Therefore, there is one fewer solar day per year than there are sidereal days ...
The square of a planet's orbital period is proportional to the cube of the length ... the year in which Newton's ... (10-6 AU 3 /day 2) Mercury 0.38710 87.9693 7.496 ...
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: NASA: Image from the transit of Mercury in 2003 (27 May 2003) Shadow & Substance.com: Transit of Mercury Animated for November 8, 2006; Transits of Mercury – Fourteen century catalog: 1 601 AD – 3 000 AD; Transits of Mercury on Earth – Fifteen millennium catalog: 5 000 BC – 10 000 AD