name the planet which is nearest to sun
Geography · High School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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The planet that is nearest to the sun is mercury.
Mercury is considered to be the smallest planet and the planet that is closest to the sun. It has the shortest revolution period among all the planets in the solar system, which only takes roughly about 88 earth days, more or less 3 months. Its distance to the sun is 74.8 million km^2 and the radius of mercury is about 2, 440 km. It is known that mercury is the planet which have the highest temperature swing in the entire solar system, due to the fact that the temperature of mercury can drop from 600 degrees celsius to 170 degrees celsius.
Final answer:
Mercury