What evidence do you have about Mercury being an escaped satellite of Venus, also the capture theory for the moon has been abandoned by most mainstream astronomers.
I think cc was quoting that part about Mercury being an escaped satellite.
Sidebar:
http://www.nineplanets.org/venus.html
4.869e24 kg
http://www.nineplanets.org/mercury.html
3.30e23 kg
Mercury is about .06777572397 the mass of Venus.
http://www.nineplanets.org/earth.html
5.972e24 kg
7.35e22 kg
The Moon is about .0123074347 the mass of the Earth.
capture origin of the Moon:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1234919/posts
I don’t believe it I was just citing the comments at the website. Our moon is made up of the same stuff as the earth in very similar quantities and that indicates that the moon has been with the earth almost from the beginning.