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Which is the smallest planet in the solar system?

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True,Mercury is the smallest planet of the solar system.Mercury measures 4879 km along its equator. Just for comparison, Earth is 12,742 km across. So Mercury is only 38% the diameter of Earth. In terms of volume, its even less. Mercury has only 0.05 the volume of the Earth.

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