To: thefactor
Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Didn't know it was that tiny.
4 posted on
10/20/2008 8:32:13 PM PDT by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact i DID only read the excerpt.)
To: thefactor
If I recall, our moon is bigger than Mercury.
7 posted on
10/20/2008 8:39:45 PM PDT by
OneWingedShark
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To: thefactor
And Pluto was demoted from planet for being too small?
To: thefactor
It is not that Mercury is tiny, it is just that the Sun is so enormously large.
26 posted on
10/20/2008 9:01:02 PM PDT by
coon2000
To: thefactor; Vision; Sopater; Faith; .30Carbine; MountainFlower; eaglesnest1; EternalVigilance; ...
Just look at that tiny dot that is Mercury. If our whole solar system came from a ‘big bang’ and was billions of years old, the much larger Sun back then would have had a much greater gravitational pull and sucked Mercury and the other planets right into it.
Psalm 8—amazing.
27 posted on
10/20/2008 9:01:16 PM PDT by
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