Focus on Virgo incorporating Mercury – By Elizabeth Rose PIN 7430

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Mercury is the ruling planet for two signs, one is Virgo and is also the ruling planet for Gemini.

Virgo Traits:

When Mercury is in Virgo they are not usually brash people – they liked to be seen as intelligent by others.

They can be picky and love order and detail.

Some get stressed out when things do not go their way.

They like day to day stuff to be in order and they enjoy planning.

They pay a lot of attention to detail.

They work well in secretarial work and may be a researcher of some kind.

Sometimes communication can be difficult for them.

They can be quite protective at times but can also be impatient.

They tend to take on too much work but grumble about it.

Mercury

It is named by the Roman deity Mercury which means the messenger of the gods. It is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System.

It takes 87.97 days to orbit around the sun which is the shortest of all the planets in the Solar System.

If you were weighed on Mercury you would weigh 38% of your weight on the earth.

Mercury has no rings or moons  and this may be because it is so close to the sun.

The orbital speed of Mercury is 29 miles and 7 seconds.

176 days on earth is only one day on Mercury.

Mercury has no atmosphere.

It is covered in craters and been dormant for millions of years.

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and so circulates the sun faster than other planets.

It is estimated that Mercury is 48 million miles from Earth.

The diameter is 3031 miles.

A spacecraft was first sent to Mercury in 1974.

Mercury is 70% metallic and 30% silicate and is known as a terrestrial planet.

Galileo first observed the planet in the 17th century. 

It cannot be seen through some telescopes as the sun is too close and would damage the telescope. 

Mercury is the second densest planet after the earth. 

The temperature on the surface of Mercury ranges from 173 to 472C. 

Mercury was hit by an asteroid which was estimated to be 60 miles wide and this created a huge crater which is roughly estimated to be 960 miles wide. 

This crater is called the Caloris Basin. 

Ice craters were discovered in the North Pole furthest from the sun. 

Mercury is within the Earth’s orbit but can only be seen early in the morning or late in the evening. 

According to astrology Mercury is associated with intelligence and communication.

Focus on the Sun – By Elizabeth Rose PIN 7430

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The Sun is a star and is in the centre of the Solar System.

Helios is the Greek name of the Sun. The Planet Sun is the ruler of the zodiac sign of Leo and those that are born under the sign benefit greatly.

They tend to take control of situations and are excellent managers. They like power and usually have impressive personalities and very good characteristics. They are excellent leaders too.

They are generally good and kind and have strong personalities.

The Sun is dry and hot and considered a masculine planet.

The actual diameter of the Sun is 870,000 miles or 1.4 million km. It is 93 million miles from the Earth or 150 km.

The Sun is a star and it is a huge ball of hot gases. It releases huge amounts of light and heat and is constantly undergoing nuclear reactions.

It takes the Earth 365 days to orbit the Sun, One Year! Amazingly, one million Earths could fit inside the Sun.

The Sun contains 99.86 per cent of the mass in the Solar System and is considered to have the largest mass.

It is an almost perfect sphere in shape.

The actual temperature inside the Sun itself can reach a huge 15 million Celsius.

So the Sun is the Centre of all life force and energy.

 

Focus on the Moon – By Elizabeth Rose PIN 7430

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THE MOON

The Moon or Luna as it was known in Mythological times is the ruling planet of Cancer.

The Moon is actually classed as a satellite of the Earth and not a planet and it is the Earths lone natural satellite.

The Moon is the fifth largest satellite in our solar system.

239,000 miles is the average distance between the Earth and the Moon, this does vary.

You can only see 59% of the Moon from the Earth.

14,658,000 square miles is the surface area of the Moon.

It orbits the Earth at 2,300 miles an hour.

The Moon’s gravity affects the tides on the Earth.

253-387F is the temperature range on the Moon.

When a month has two full moons in it the second Moon is called a blue moon.

It rotates at 10 miles an hour compared to the Earth’s rotation of 1000 miles an hour.

There is no wind on the Moon so any footprints made by astronauts are there to stay.

The heavy space suits worn by astronauts when they landed on the Moon weighed 180 pounds on Earth but only 30 pounds on the Moon due to the lower gravity.

Apollo 11 had only 20 seconds of fuel left when they landed on the Moon.

The top speed recorded in a four wheeled vehicle was 10.56 miles per hour.

February does not have a full moon, but then either January or March will have two full moons.

The Chinese call the dark shadows on the Moon ‘The toad in the moon’

The missions brought back a total of 2196 rock samples weighing 382kg.

We always see the same side of the Moon from the Earth.

The dark spots on the Moon are craters filled with basalt which is a very dense material.

The Moon is the only extraterrestrial body that humans have visited.

Luna 3 was built by the Soviet Union in October 1959 it was the first space craft to send back pictures from the Moon.

It has no global magnetic field.

The diameter of the Moon is about a quarter of the Earth’s diameter – about forty nine moons would fit inside the Earth.

If the Moon is directly above you and you are at the coast then you will see a high tide.

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon.

First quarter, last quarter, full moon and the new moon are the four phases of the Moon.

There are more than 300,000 craters on the Moon and that is on just one side.