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Mercury has been observed for thousands of years, and I believe the Babylonians are credited with mentioning it in writing for the first time some 3000 years ago or so. We do not know the name of the individual who first discovered it, just as we do not know the name of the man/woman who invented the wheel.
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Mercury has been observed for thousands of years, as early as the time of the Babylonians, who mentioned it in writing some 3000 years ago. The exact person who first discovered the planet has been lost to time, and is therefore indetermina...
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Chemistry question: Who discovered mercury and when did he she discover it? Mercury was known to the ancients. ... Where was the atom mercury discovered? Who discover the mercury and what year? What did spacecraft discovered on mercury? When was mercury discovered as an elemenyt? What did they discover when going to Mercury?
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Mercury (planet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it ha...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)
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The Element Mercury - Basic Physical and Historical Information ... The Element Mercury; [Click for Isotope Data] ... What's in a name? Named after the planet Mercury. Mercury's chemical symbol comes from the Greek word hydrargyrum, which means "liquid silver."
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Mercury was known to the ancient Chinese and was found in Egyptian tombs that date from 1500 BC. No one knows who discovered it.
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One of the earliest records of Mercury comes from the Sumerians around 3,000 BC. Since Mercury never travels far from the sun in the sky, it is more difficult to see and was probably discovered later than brighter planets like Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
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MESSENGER Discovers Volcanoes on Mercury; As reported in the July 4, 2008 issue of Science magazine, volcanoes have been discovered on Mercury's surface from images acquired during MESSENGER's first Mercury flyby.
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