I am the Merry Mercury
Hey, I am the planet, Mercury.
I am named after the Roman God of
commerce and travel.
I am the first and closest planet to
the Sun and also a very small planet.
I am called Budh in Hindu mythology.
I am just one-third the size of Earth.
I am as wide as the Atlantic Ocean but
I don’t have any water or moons.
I am made of rock and my surface is covered
with many craters. Since I am so close to the Sun I am very hot.
I am also the fastest planet in the
solar system and I can go around the sun in just eighty-eight days.
But I rotate on my axis very slowly
and take nearly sixty earth days to complete one rotation
By the way, there are other planets
around me.
We come in all shapes and sizes.
Some of my friends are very far away.
Together we form the solar system.
We are the jewels of the sky.
Even though we are far away we
secretly control many things on Earth.
Scientists’ are still discovering many
things about us.
