The semimajor axis ofMercury’s orbit—that is, the planet’s average distance from the Sun—is 58 million kilometers, or 0.39 AU. However, because its orbit has the high eccentricity of 0.206, Mercury’s actual distance from the Sun varies from 46 million kilometers at perihelion to 70 ...
History Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun at a mean orbital semimajor axis of 0.3871 AU, has been observed from the times of earliest civilization. Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Mayan civilizations all included Mercury in their mythology and religions. The planet's close proximity to the Sun...
Mercury's orbit about the Sun has a semimajor axis of 0.387 AU, an eccentricity of 0.206, and an inclination of 7 ° relative to the ecliptic. Therefore, the orbital distance from the Sun varies between 0.308 AU at perihelion and 0.466 AU at aphelion in the course of one revolution, cau...
Similarly, a large remnant bulge due to a smaller semimajor axis and spin-orbit resonance can be dismissed since the required semimajor axis is unphysically small (<0.1 AU). Reorientation of a large remnant bulge recording an epoch of faster rotation (without significant semimajor axis ...
This study demonstrates a pivotal role of the Mer operon in effective mercury detoxification and hypertolerance in nitrogen-fixing rhizobia. This finding has major implications not only for soil bioremediation, but also host plants growing in mercury contaminated soils....
Šteins is an asteroid in the Main Asteroid Belt (MAB) with a semi-major axis of 2.364 AU and was discovered in 1969. First spectroscopic and photometric observations of Šteins were made in 2004, when Šteins was selected as a flyby target for the Rosetta mission (Barucci et al., ...
This means that any errors in the peak fitting resulting in elemental image cross contamination would be equally evident in both the Hg and Au XRF images. If there was cross contamination, a signal spike in the Hg image of Fig. 2A on the woman’s ring finger where the Au signal is ...
Spline of gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) to (a) CO and (b) Traj48h (the distance of the endpoint of each 48 h trajectory (hourly resolution) from the corresponding cruise observation location). They-axis in each subplot represents the smooth function term of each predictor with the estim...
Mercury is the the smallest planet in the Solar System, and the closest planet to the Sun. Its orbital period around the Sun of 87.97 days is the shortest of all planets in the Solar System. It is named after the Roman deity Mercury, the messenger of the
The presence of amalgam fillings, a major source of elemental Hg exposure, was not associated with Hg excretion in these Spanish donors. Show abstract Understanding the hepatoxicity of inorganic mercury through guts: Perturbance to gut microbiota, alteration of gut-liver axis related metabolites and...