GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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Which planet is closet to the sun?
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Mercury
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Pluto
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Earth
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Jupiter
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Explanation:
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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Calculations and simulations confirm that on average, Mercury is the nearest planet to Earth-and to every other planet in the solar system.
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