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
Extraterrestrial places in the Cthulhu Mythos the same star cluster as Abbith, Xoth, and Zaoth. In Lin Carter's "The Feaster from the Stars: The History of Yzduggor the Eremite", Ymar is said to orbit the star Algol and to be the homeworld of the Great Old One "Zvilpogghua", an offspring of Tsathoggua (See Algol). Yuggoth (or Iukkoth) is the dwarf planet Pluto. It is home to the Mi-Go, a race of fungi-crustacean of Lovecraft's invention. In Richar A. Lupoff's "Discovery of the Ghooric Zone—March 15, 2337", it alternately appears as an enormous planet that orbits on the rim of the Solar System, coinciding with the hypothetical