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Article has “at perihelion, when the solar tide is strongest, the Sun is nearly still in Mercury's sky.”
What does that mean? The sun is always in Mercury’s sky, at some point on the planet. Sounds like some words are missing from that sentence. Can someone fix it? 2603:8001:5940:CF00:94AD:A25C:BBA0:B669 ( talk) 19:55, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
Observe that 2439 < 2020 + 500.
To my understanding, this is because the mantle thickness comes from an outdated source. Here [1] is a source which states that the "core-mantle boundary is 420 km belw the suface" (insofar as subtraction needs a source), from which it can be deduced the mantle cannot possibly be 500 km thick.
I'm not sure how much of the rest of the text is outdated, in what sense, etc, so for now I'll just WP:BOLD change the mantle + crust thickness to 420 km, pending a better source. Fermiboson ( talk) 17:51, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
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“many competing hypothesis” should be “many competing hypotheses”. 47.199.93.202 ( talk) 03:38, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
With regards this edit I just made, it should be "As with Venus, Earth and Mars, the source of the blackbody temperature no longer works, as seen on Talk:Venus so I've added an archive URL". Iggy ( Swan) ( Contribs) 16:03, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
I'm unclear what this is trying to communicate:
I understand the first is a reference to the north pole, but what are the longitudes? I would think that the extremes are the poles, subsolar point, and the night side. Praemonitus ( talk) 22:45, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
Currently the article claims the following:
However, the current models indicate the core may instead be Fe-Si. For example:
These look at a core with a Fe-S-Si composition:
In that case perhaps it would make sense to say "the iron core is alloyed with uncertain abundances of silicon, sulfur, and carbon"? Praemonitus ( talk) 20:16, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
Some users look for the element, and find this page, thinking there would be a "Not to be confused with Mercury (Element)" or " the element" or " the element of the same name" Pinky the rancher slime ( talk) 22:31, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
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Change "moon" (referring to Earth's Moon) to "Moon"; Physical Characteristics-Compressional features-line 1. Lejack 007 ( talk) 16:01, 21 May 2024 (UTC)