: I just learned that mercury is in fact the closest planet to the earth. What is this madness and since when?

Question

: I just learned that mercury is in fact the closest planet to the earth. What is this madness and since when?

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Answer 1

So you are probably picturing the planets lined up in order of their distance from the sun – lined up from left to right?

Yeah don’t do that. Picture them orbiting the sun all at different speeds.