GK
GENERAL SCIENCE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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venus
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mercury
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saturn
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mars
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mercury is the planet that orbits the closest to the Sun.
Detailed explanation-2: -The answer is planet Mercury. At an average distance of only 57.9 million km, Mercury orbits closer to the Sun than any other planet. Just to give you a comparison, Venus orbits the Sun at an average distance of 108.2 million km.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mercury is the closest planet to the sun simply because this is the area where its matter first coalesced about 4.5 billion years ago. In the earliest days of our solar system, the interstellar neighborhood was far more crowded.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. Its orbit around the Sun is very elliptical, like a stretched out circle, compared to those of the other planets. Mercury’s distance from the Sun ranges from 28.6 million miles (46 million km) to 43.4 million miles (69.8 million km).