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Length of One Year

The length of one year for any planet is the time that it takes it to make one orbit around the Sun. For Earth the length of one year is about 365 Earth days. It takes Mercury only 88 Earth days to orbit the Sun. To see just how swiftly Mercury orbits the Sun compare it to Pluto, which takes over 248 Earth years to make one orbit.

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