Mercury (planet) Mercury (planet) Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System. Its orbital period around the Sun of 87.97 days is the shortest of all the planets in the Solar System. It is named after the Roman deity Mercury, the messenger of the gods. Like Venus, Mercury orbits the Sun within Earth's orbit as an "inferior planet", and never exceeds 28° away from the Sun. When viewed from Earth, this proximity to the Sun means the planet can only be seen near the western or eastern horizon during the early evening or early morning. At this time it
The Bright Sun Brings It to Light The Bright Sun Brings It to Light "The Bright Sun Brings It to Light" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in "Grimm's Fairy Tales", tale number 115. It is Aarne-Thompson type 960, The Sun Brings All to Light. A tailor's apprentice robs and murders a Jew on the road, despite the Jew saying that "The bright sun will bring it to light." He then settled down. One day, he saw the sunlight reflecting from his coffee and jeered about its bringing "it" to light. His wife bothered him until he told her what he meant. She