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Answer by uhoh for What are the Time Zones on Mercury?
Partial answer about the retrograde motion only:Yes, the Sun has yearly retrograde motion as seen from MercuryI've written a simple script to generate the orbital motion of Mercury based on its...
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Interesting question. The terms day and year become funny when you move to Mercury: Mercury is tidally locked to the Sun and has a 2:3 spin-orbit-resonance. That means that a complete day-night cycle...
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I normally post on worldbuilding, but this question is merely about facts of a planets orbit and spin. I am trying to figure out how time periods work on Mercury to possibly make a worldbuilding guide...
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