[FPSPACE] "We're orbiting hell"

[Jens Kieffer-Olsen]

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> On Behalf Of DwayneDay
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 12:52 AM
> Subject: [FPSPACE] "We're orbiting hell"
> 
> Mercury, with a diameter one-third Earth's, is about 36 
> million miles from the sun, and zips around it in 88 Earth 
> days. But its rotisserie-slow rotation -- one Mercury day 
> lasts two Mercury years -- causes the planet's day-night 
> temperature to careen between 840 degrees Fahrenheit and 
> minus-350 degrees Fahrenheit, the biggest differential of any 
> planet in the solar system.

 Interesting - how does that fit the description: " Mercury -
 The Winged Messenger with a 3:2 Spin-Orbit Resonance"?

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Jens Kieffer-Olsen
Slagelse, Denmark