Mercury: The Impossible Planet



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29 thoughts on “Mercury: The Impossible Planet”

  1. There’s a really good book called “The Hunt for Vulcan” by Thomas Levenson. Vulcan was officially announced as a real planet that had been observed during an eclipse. The world went wild trying to see it and because the person who saw it was hugely respected everybody assumed they needed different equipment. That led directly to solar observation equipment we still use today. Edison got involved and eventually Einstein did too. He led the drive that ultimately ended the search and declared the planet was a fantasy.

    It’s an exceptionally good book. I highly recommend it.

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  2. 4 billion years is a long time in a radioactive blast furnace.
    Why couldn’t Mercury, being so close to the sun, over billions of years, slough away the surface, atoms to volumes of dust at a time all the time without stopping?

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  3. I hate to admit it, but the bigger the beard, the more I believe what he says. If his beard gets to 12"+, he just might be able to convince me of flat earth. I find this unsettling…

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  4. Greek here. Due to the fact that we still call all planets of our solar system with Hellenic names, it took me a few seconds to adjust to the Latin name. We still call Jupiter as Hermes, to this day.

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  5. A planet is a planet no matter how small, unless you're Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Then you just make a lot of noise until people get sick of it and change the rules to get rid of the one you don't like

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