TIL On average, Mercury is the closest planet to Earth — and to every other planet in the solar system

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https://youtu.be/SumDHcnCRuU?si=m754GmauMaaimoRw

CGP Grey on that subject <3
- This is awesome and 🤯 at the same time.
Right because it goes round so fast. I feel like this is somehow misleading tho, to be real
- Sort of, basically because mercury has the small orbit it spends the most time closer on average to any other planet. The CGP Grey video someone else posted is a really good explanation as to what's going on.
  
  I mean, I think you basically cut the explanation to a single sentence.
- I don't think it's misleading. I think a lot of people who think of Mars as the closest don't realize that it's only close once every 2 years or so and unimaginably far away on average (further than Mercury).
when it is the furthest from earth, it is the least further
- He doesn’t go far, that mercury fella
  
  He doesn't go too far enough! 😆
  
  Neither too far nor too near
  The least wiggle
What about if you add the sun into the equation?
- If you take the sun out of the equation, the planets fly apart in all directions. Hope that helps ;)
  
  I mean would the planets be closer to mercury or the sun on average
  
  I don't think that would help, I quite like our relative location.

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