Redigerer Merkur (avsnitt)

== Noter og referanser ==
;Noter
<references group="lower-alpha">
<ref name="inklinasjon" group="lower-alpha">7.005° mot [[ekliptikken]], 3.38° mot solens ekvator og 6.34° mot det konstante planet</ref>
<ref name="minst" group="lower-alpha">[[Pluto]] var tidligere den minste [[planet]]en i [[solsystemet]], men ble i 2006 omklassifisert til [[dvergplanet]]</ref>
<ref name="udu" group="lower-alpha">Noen kilder angir kileskriften som «MUL». «MUL» er et kileskrifttegn som ble brukt i de [[Sumeriske skrifter|sumeriske skriftene]] for å utpeke en stjerne eller planet, men det betraktes ikke som en del av selve navnet. «4» er et referansenummer i det sumero-akkadiske translitterasjonssystemet for å angi hvilke av flere stavelser et visst kileskrifttegn mest sannsynlig utpeker.</ref>
</references>

;Litteraturhenvisninger
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<ref name="Antoniadi" group="L">[[#Antoniadi|Antoniadi]], s.&nbsp;9&ndash;11</ref>

<ref name="Bakich2000" group="L">[[#Bakich|Bakich]]</ref>

<ref name="Baum1997" group="L">[[#Baum|Baum]]</ref>

<ref name="Butrica1996" group="L">[[#Butrica|Butrica]], kap.&nbsp;5</ref>

<ref name="chaikin1" group="L">[[#Beatty|Beatty]]</ref>

<ref name="Cosmic1" group="L">[[#Biswas|Biswas]], s.&nbsp;176</ref>

<ref name="Crump1992" group="L">[[#Crump|Crump]], s.&nbsp;39&ndash;40</ref>

<ref name="De Groot1912" group="L">[[#De Groot|De Groot]], s.&nbsp;300</ref>

<ref name="Duncan1946" group="L">[[#Duncan|Duncan]]</ref>

<ref name="Dunne1978_1" group="L">[[#Dunne|Dunne]], kap.&nbsp;1</ref>

<ref name="Dunne1978_4" group="L">[[#Dunne|Dunne]], kap.&nbsp;4</ref>

<ref name="Dunne1978_7" group="L">[[#Dunne|Dunne]], kap.&nbsp;7</ref>

<ref name="Dunne1978_8" group="L">[[#Dunne|Dunne]], kap.&nbsp;8</ref>

<ref name="Dunne1978_9" group="L">[[#Dunne|Dunne]], kap.&nbsp;9</ref>

<ref name="Ferris2003" group="L">[[#Ferris|Ferris]]</ref>

<ref name="Hulbert1909" group="L">[[#Hulbert|Hulbert]], s.&nbsp;426</ref>

<ref name="Hunten1988" group="L">[[#Hunten|Hunten]], s.&nbsp;562&ndash;612</ref>

<ref name="Kelley2004" group="L">[[#Kelley2004|Kelley]]</ref>

<ref name="Lewis2004s461" group="L">[[#Lewis|Lewis]], s.&nbsp;461</ref>

<ref name="Lewis2004s463" group="L">[[#Lewis|Lewis]], s.&nbsp;463</ref>

<ref name="Lidell1996" group="L">[[#Liddell|Liddell]], s.&nbsp;690&nbsp;og&nbsp;1646</ref>

<ref name="Milbrath1999" group="L">[[#Milbrath|Milbrath]]</ref>

<ref name="Moore2000" group="L">[[#Moore|Moore]], s.&nbsp;483</ref>

<ref name="Murray1977" group="L">[[#Murray|Murray]]</ref>

<ref name="Pujari2006" group="L">[[#Pujari|Pujari]]</ref>

<ref name="RASC2007" group="L">[[#Kelly2007|Kelly]]</ref>

<ref name="Seeds2004" group="L">[[#Seeds2004|Seeds]]</ref>

<ref name="Strom2003" group="L">[[#Strom|Strom]]</ref>
</references>

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