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RE: MystiFACT-or-FICTION challenge Response -#2 Is Pluto really the smallest planet in our solar system?
Great post, thank you for your response to my challenge :) May I point out that 20 Earth years is about 83 years on Mercury, so a 20 year old born on Mercury would be 83 "years" old and 134 "days" old
You're welcome! I was actually comparing the Mercury year (88 Earth days) with the Mercury solar day (176 Earth days), not Mercury's "sidereal day"(59 Earth days) or with Earth years or days.
176 / 88 = 2:1 ratio or (20 Mercury years : 10 Mercury "solar" days).
I believe you're saying:
1 Mercury year = 88 Earth days
20 Earth years x 365 = 7300 Earth days
7300/88 = 83 Mercury years
20 Mercury years x 88 Earth days= 1760 Earth days
1760/365 = 4.83 Earth years to 20 years on Mercury
or as a ratio:
20 / 4.83 = 4.14 or 83 / 20 = 4.15
Which is pretty close.
Thanks for the reply, and the challenge. It's been fun!
Even if my brain hurts a little now... :)
hmm...you just did some interesting math stuff....