Assertion: mercury | /r/CapableOf | orbit the sun
Facets:
value: quickly
type: MANNER
value: once every 87.97 earth days
type: TEMPORAL
value: like venus
type: OTHER
value: closer to the earth
type: LOCATION
value: at a distance of 57,909,050 km
type: LOCATION
value: as an inferior planet
type: MANNER
value: within earth's orbit
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Like Venus, Mercury orbits the Sun within Earth's orbit as an inferior planet, and its apparent distance from the Sun as viewed from Earth never exceeds 28°.
text: The observation demonstrated conclusively that Mercury orbited around the Sun.
text: This time frame represents the amount of Earth days it takes for Mercury to orbit the Sun twice, or two Mercurial years.
text: Mercury orbits the Sun at a distance of 57,909,050 km (35,983,015 mi), which works out to o.387 AU – or slightly more than one-third the distance between the Sun and the Earth.
text: What’s really happening is that Mercury is orbiting the Sun closer to the Earth.
text: Greek astronomers knew, however, that the two names referred to the same body, and Heraclitus, around 500 B.C., correctly thought that both Mercury and Venus orbited the sun, not Earth.
text: Mercury orbits the sun very quickly (between 24.25 miles per second (39.03 km/s) and 30 miles per second (48 km/s)), so spacecraft must be travelling very fast to reach it.
text: Mercury rotates on its axis very slowly, while it orbits the sun quickly.
text: Mercury orbits the sun once every 87.97 Earth Days.
text: These observations demonstrated conclusively that Mercury orbited around the Sun, which helped to definitively prove that the Copernican Heliocentric model of the universe was the correct one.