🌍 Which Planet is the Closest?
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What software did you use for calculations?
@@regnij01 your mother must be very proud
On the one hand it's a CGP video but on the other it's a clickbait title
More space themed videos would cool...
Like a few degrees Kevin cool
Congrats on 4 million
Mercury must be a really good friend, he's got so many friends but he makes time for them all
How do you think I feel?!
I’m in front of Jupiter!!!!!
@@driedflyyy1234 BAHAHAHAHAHHA
@@driedflyyy1234 Don't worry mars, you wouldn't be alive without Jupiter (Read not christian bible page 4 paragraph 8)
ikr
True
This is why Mercury was the messenger, he was able to reach every God
This is oddly poignant. Thank you. :)
Benjamin Lambert ha ha!
Oh ho
The question is if this is a coincidence or if the romans somehow calculated it
Yellow They couldn’t have, it’s a coincidence
Playing space games, this was an important realization to me. Need to make base in a system? Lowest orbit planet will give you the shortest travel to the other planets, making it the economical choice when looking at your next base of interplanetary operations
This doesn't work from a fuel standpoint though. If you want to get to Mercury from Earth you'll spend less fuel by flying away from the Sun into an elliptical orbit and then slowing down at the farthest point from the Sun so that you reach Mercury and then dropping your orbit to stay with Mercury when you reach Mercury.
@@efulmer8675 that’s why I never like this idea of which planet is closest, since it doesn’t matter in a universe where orbital mechanics are something we need to deal with for the foreseeable future.
@@alexsiemers7898 Closest by distance is the issue, not closest by energy. If we were considering the energy requirements to get from one object to another, then this experiment of CGPGrey's might have something a lot more interesting to say.
@@efulmer8675 Energy requirement isn't really a lot more interesting, it's arguably a lot more mundane. There's really only one factor to consider, how time-sensitive it is. If it's really time sensitive, the lowest average distance is still optimal. If you were to launch a round trip every day, mercury would still, in fact, be the closest in terms of fuel spent. If it's not time-sensitive, minimum distance matters most, so long as you can get an encounter, you can match orbits for almost free using gravity assists, though it might take multiple passes and upwards of thousands of years in the case of the outer planets. If we're talking about a practical tradeoff that maximizes the frequency of transfer windows while minimizing the fuel, well, there's no one size fits all solution, the criteria are inherently subjective to the human experience and personal preference. But generally speaking, Venus is closest, Mars is second, Mercury's third, and then it goes in order outwards given current human lifespans, aerospace technology, and economy.
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The further back I see random hexagons in CGP Grey's videos makes me wonder just how long of a project Hexagons are the Bestagons was. The currency symbol on that menu in the background has a hexagon in it. This video is a little over a year older than the hexagon one. It's like the MCU giving hints to future things, but better.
I think this is more he liked hexagons for a while but never thought of making the video
I just noticed this a few moments before reading your comment. Wow! And I gotta admit... Hexagons are the Bestagons... Not sure about which dice are best at the moment. But for many many purposes, it's the Hex!
I bet ya'll that Mercury is the mostest closest to the Sun as well.
Actually it's pluto
Legendary Zet fam ever heard of vy canis majoris.yea that sun is the closest
No, I think that’s Pluto my dude
@@legendaryzet8450 If y'all are gonna make a Pluto joke, at least pick the farther dwarf planet Eris, which is more massive than Pluto (22.6% the size of our moon vs Pluto's 17.7% the size of our moon) and has a larger orbit (67.78 AU radius vs Pluto's 39.48 AU radius). Or pick Sedna, another dwarf planet that has an absolutely huge orbit (506.8 AU radius).
You’ll have to show your working, I’m afraid.
Mercury is the messenger so it makes sense he’s the fastest and sees the most people
Was literally about to comment this. Nice to see I wasn't the only one who thought this!
first thing that came to mind when he starting stating mercury
Same, but means I'm now worried this was something the Romans figured out and mankind somehow forgot since so what else did we forget? 😫
@@daivahataka well first we can start with archery and how everything we knew about it is gone
there is a long list we don't even know of and keep in mind the only reason we know even the little we do is because middle Easter scientists and mathematician wanted to know what the fuck the Romans were up to
@@daivahataka some people "forget" ancient greeks not only knew what the shape of Earth is, but also calculated very precise dimensions.
"You too pluto"
That line and delivery make this video worthy of many rewatch
ITS BEEN A YEAR SINCE THIS CAME OUT AND I JUST REALIZED THAT APHRODITE’S THEME FROM THE HERCULES TV SHOW APPEARS WHEN VENUS DOES AT 1:45 THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY
So what you’re saying is that we need a dating sim of planets where you play as Mercury.
What if it's like DDLC, where you can choose one planet in the end, doesn't matter if its a guy or a gal. But the ending gets ruined by Black hole/ Sun becoming yandere for Mercury
Hacks.
@@schizophreniagaming1187 Don't forget the Pluto DLC
Rule34 dictates that this already exists in one way or another
this needs to be a thing
I like how Mercury was named after the Gods' Messager and yet he coincidentally is the mostest closest
Maybe it wasnt a Coincidence and the romans Knew this
@@sancoban1561 most likely not, but it would be a cool theory if so
@@flamersshowsandmore3864 my understanding is that it moves the fastest when observed of the planets and thus was linked to the winged messenger
Messager?
Gods be like: oh is that you step-planet?
@@muntadar-albahadily why
Love the Planet Human animations you made!
Wow, that’s really surprising that Mercury is the “mostest closest” to all the planets!
do not start planethumans we already got countryhumans
@@hafidzv97That already exists.
Sorry to inform you about this tragedy
I love the Saturn stick figure with blood on his mouth, that's such stupidly amazing attention to detail
Edit: it's a reference to Saturn Devouring his Son, if that wasn't clear
1:21 Ah yes, “unpossible”
Oh.
Why did I not find anything weird in that word for a whole minute 😅😅
Simpsons reference.
feels like something someone german would say, it is "unmöglich" in german
@@wutschkorammo5 or Swedish, its omöjligt in swedish (litterally unpossible)
Grey: "Which Planet is Closest?"
Me: I'm pretty sure it's Earth?
I don't know about you guys, but Earth has been the closest planet to me for my whole life
*gasp*
He found the loophole!
You're too dangerous to be left alive
@@c7aerospace how did they derp exactly?
I bet you didn't even calculated it.
I love all the little details with the PlanetHumans, with Terra having Lunar as a baby, all of the palnets have traitds that their namesake deities are (Neptune having a trident, Uranus is ina frickin' cloud for some reason, Jupiter having a lightning bolt, Saturn having an agrarial scythe, etc.) they having reflective personalities, aslo of the namesake gods, everything! Great work, CGP Grey!
2:07
Those of us from a certain fandom see what did and I love it
Broke: Solar System
Woke: Mercury’s harem
Aka. The Big Gangbang.
@@mikejameson7678 well done, sir. well done
wat
More like Sun's and Mercury's harem
Mercury is like the main girl closest to harem protag (the Sun) but all the other girls don't compete but instead like her too. They all revolve around the harem protag the Sun for sure but also spend roughly 50% of the time closer to Mercury than the Sun
@@NeinKyori So basically Sun-senpai has a harem and Mercury-chan is the most popular
Mercury! I thought we had something special! 😞
Wait a minute I have another account named Earth... SO WHO ARE YOU
@@Lazymotion Evil twin?
@@348joey :O
@@Lazymotion I forgot the "Dun-dun-dun!", sorry.
@@348joey Ok also this reply is my first reply after I upgraded to windows 10 :D
I absolutely loved this. And after my first viewing of one of your vids about a month ago, and really enjoying more when your content pops up in my CZcams feed...
I'm moving from Subscribed to Joining today.
Thank you for all your great content. It's fun and informative. The flags stuff was my first encounter. But I've been drawn in by so much else too. (I don't normally care about flags, because of mostly boring flags... and I'm just not a flag person... but I was actually really interested in Minnesota's flag change after I was drawn in by your stuff.
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Thank You!
That was delightfully unexpected. Really gives a whole new meaning to the adjective "mercurial". Mercury is a real social butterfly in our solar system. A little bit of companionship for everyone.
Mercury is like that kid in school who knows EVERYone
Osana Najimi.
@@MakkusuOtaku what???
@@Alisha-yz6nd It's a character from the manga "Komi-san wa komyushou desu" that happens to fit the description of Mercury given.
@@MakkusuOtaku ok
@SampleText OK boomer
Murcury being the mostest closest makes him a great messager coincidentally
That's why we named the planet Mercury
Messenger*
mini mini STOP THAT JOKE IS TO GOOD TO EXAIST
*Yes*
Mercury is a quick boi
I'm a big fan of the astronomy-themed coffee, but I'm also interested in this hexagonal currency that keeps showing up in your videos
Maybe it is a hint that Grey is launching his own crypto
Because hexagons are the bestagons
Mercury is like your best friend, he may not be the absolute closest to you, but he's the best because he never goes too far.
Mercury is the most closest because he's a messenger.
Gotta go fast
Oh my God...
They knew
😱😱
what a coincidence
Mercury is that one kid who has ties with the seniors
USAGI
Mercury is the one really fun, extroverted kid that, despite all odds, is friends with everyone in the school and never gets bullied.
"ties..."
@@cking4869 oh so me then. I was so surprised when a now ex told me that when we first were dating, took a walk around the school and everyone knew me. I was weird kid, idk how that happened.
@@cking4869 holy heck how did you describe me so perfectly without me knowing
Oh, i know that feeling then.
So if we were not strictly limiting to planets, by that logic you could say the Sun is the closest to all of them, or at least divides Mercury's "closest" status by half.
Yep, which is also why mercury basically *must* be the mostest closest, because if you were to assume spherical-ish orbits the center of each orbit would obviously be the mostest closest (because the radius would basically be the steadiest and shortest distance {which is also why spherical-ish orbits are enough}) so if the literal center (assuming a static sun) fails one of the requirements obviously the next closest object which *does* fulfill all requirements must be the mostest closest...
(Not that I would have ever thought about that fact before this video, but once I did I realized it basically just said "circles are round and have a fixed radius")
Wow, I would never have thought so. Awesome video!
This is the most counterintuitive thing i've heard ever.
As he talked about towards the end it has to due with each planet spends about half its time on the opposite side of the Sun from each other.
So about 1/3 of the time Venus is further away from Earth than Mercury can possible be.
About 1/6 of the time Venus is closer than Mercury can possible be.
And the final 1/2 of the time Venus or Mercury could be closer and due to symmetry each has about 1/2 the time closer.
Thus about if you add these up Mercury is closer than Venus 7/12ths of time (simplified fractions not actual amounts, but shows the point).
Thus the key is that Venus with its bigger orbit spends much more time being Further from Earth than Mercury could possibly be, than it spends as time Closer than Mercury could possibly be.
James Knapp Yeah, I do understand it - it’s just very much not intuitive 😁
If you go by average distance yes but in travel time for a spaceship. Smallest closest distance is then more important plus the amount of time you have to spend changing your speed to get an encounter
maranatapalle It’s intuitive if you replace Mercury with the Sun. Say Earth compared to the Sun and Venus. Hold Earth still, it doesn’t matter where it is. Where in Venus’ orbit is it closer than the Sun?
This is why you shouldn't always trust common sense.
i like how everyones happy, and earth is just having a midlife crisis at age 1
Pluto seems very sad
Earth actually is about halfway through its lifespan. 4.5B yrs old orbiting a star with a 10B yr lifespan.
OP said that earth is having a midlife crisis at 1, which i'll assume is that they are pertaining to the child. What *I* understand however is that by Earth/Terra being the only one carrying the child, the child acts as a metaphor for how Earth is the only planet to support life.
Hopefully that made enough sense to be understood. :D
naah, just big babies
@@hamter8707 "Mother Gaia"
I always love how you make things little characters on your videos its so cute
Found this channel at the right time.Great channel, More power to you! ⚡
I like that Terra is holding a crying humanity in her arms.
I think it' the moon; as moons go, the Moon is proportionally *huge* compared to everyone else's moons.
And Saturn has blood in his mouth, referencing the origin story of the gods!
I think that baby is our moon.
“Mother” Earth
@@pianoguy222 the moon is blue and green? also there are moons in jupiter that are bigger than earths moon.
I feel like you made this video just so you could say "mostest closest" a whole bunch of times.
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^^^^^^ Ah yes, no comment section here on CZcams is complete without the default profile picture saying something completely irrelevant or in a different language which is also likely irrelevant xD
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@@rico1346 ςργη ηθφδ γξδε γγξιθ για την προστασία
@@rico1346 Abn al-Baghdadi did nothing wrong
As an huge astronomy nerd, that was just fantastically entertaining!
Assuming you could find a way to not be boiled alive or freeze, seems like Mercury would probably be the best place for an interplanatary civilization to use as a launch point, especially if you can find a way to siphon off fuel for futuristic fusion propulsion from Sol.
I’d think that staying further away from the sun’s gravity would be a bigger deal, but we’re talking about future tech here, so there are several variables there to play with.
Mercury is just the little brother that everyone loves
The _very_ little brother. He's the smallest planet.
Pluto: am i a joke to you?
Mercury - The tough little guy
Venus - Evil twin of Earth
Earth - Good natured and beautiful
Mars - The cool/relaxed dude
Jupiter - The big bully/defender
Saturn - Good-looking and attractive
Uranus - Awkward/Butt of the joke
Neptune - Mysterious and quiet
No
Mercury -LEo
Venus-greenhousegreenland
Earth-darth
Mars- older
Jupiter-astrioid protection
Saturn-ringland
Uranus-gay
Neptune-PX hater
@@moonlitm3285 Actually, Mars would be the war raging soldier, I don't know where you're getting the cool, relaxed dude from this.
Now the real question is
Who is the mostest closest to mercury
The sun
Mercury
SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mercury
Venus
This video is a delight for me, I love rewatching it.
Im bout to ruin my techer's whole carer
CGP Grey blowing my mind again at an unscheduled rate
I feel uncomfortable with this mostest closest definition
I suppose intuitively we think of the average distance between the orbits when thinking about the distance between planets
Your likes are booming at an unscheduled rate
Was going to use this exact phrase. "Mind Blown".
He answers questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask!
@@pratn I think, we think in terms, of how hard it is, to get from one place to an other. and the mostest closes is not a good metrik for that
Yeah, exactly.
"Hey Saturn, you have some Ketchup on your mout... Oh, right."
hey saturn, you have some babies' blood on your mout... oh, right
I don't get it
@@emmanuelthegreat422 According to legend, Saturn, who had overthrown his own father, learned of a prophecy in which it was foretold that one of his own sons would overthrow his power in similar fashion. Obsessed with preventing the prophecy from being fulfilled, Saturn devoured each of his children as soon as they were born.
@@l4pin well sh!t...
@@l4pin Isnt that Kronos's backstory? Literally?
Just fabulous.
The animation is superb.
What a fun video! I probably watched every space video on youtube but have never heard of Mercury being the mostest closest. well done!!
I love that Saturn has blood on his chin from eating his children.
BOI HE ATE HIS MOONS
Oh boy, it's a long creepy story that is.
yummy
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Took me a second to remember that Saturn was the Roman form of Kronos (I think)
All other planets are in some toxic relationship: constantly shifting between being super intimate and escaping as far as they can from each other.
And Mercury is that one guy who's not very close, but always within reach, if you ever need him.
"Its just me -krillin- Mercury, everyone's friend"
Alternatively, it's a harem anime
So mercury is a rebound?
Braid?
Oh my god. Mercury is a cat.
This is absolutely fascinating and amazing to learn.
Damn, you never fail to teach me interesting things with your videos.
Teacher: What is the closest planet to earth?
Students: Venus!
The smart kid:
That one kid: you know what rhymes with Venus?
@@mikejameson7678 lmao.
@@mikejameson7678 Genius?
Chad Walker pe-
@@dinodoestuff peacock?
But to find out what the true canon couple is we have to answer this: *Who's the mostest closest to Mercury?*
Venus
mercury
The sun?
@@J0hnB09 is this the season 2 wildcard?
Mercury?
Thank you for giving us knowledge
Mercury: Get a rose Mars.
Mars: Dude im not gay
In conclusion the solar system is just Mercury's harem
never say that again
your not wrong
No no. He's got a point
take my like and leave
and he is shota 😂😂
Teacher: "what's the closest planet to earth?"
Me: "Mercury"
Also teacher: "no you stupid dingus, the closest is mars & venus"
Me: "i'm 4 parallel universe ahead of you"
Depends if the teacher is referring to time or space. Mercury is closest most of the time, but Venus is overall the closest any planet ever gets to Earth.
@@JanetStarChild Without any other context, it would have to mean the closest planet to earth _right now._ So you'd have to know where the planets are in their orbits to answer.
@@Jivvi the best bet would still be mercury though.
Me: “you uneducated fiend. Let me enlighten you *shows video* “
@@nicoruppert4207 yeah probability wise Mercury is the best choice all the time.
Dude the way you explained it was AMAZING and this is coming from a student who spent 2 years studying about astronomy
I love your vids can you make longer ones?
Teacher: So what planet is the closest to earth.
Everyone: Mars or Venus.
Me an intellectual: Mercury
Me, the mostest intellectual : Yo mama!
(I'll leave now)
This is why mercury is fluid; it's flexible!
im doing with whenever I get the chance
The question they posed are not the same though. Here it is which planet averagely has the lowest distance to us but they are probably asking which planet's rotation radii is closest to earth's
Sadly, you will be as well received as I am when I do my shtick about primary colors.
Mercury needs to figure himself out. Can't be playing these emotional games with us.
Don't shame him for being a pint-sized pansexual polyamorous prince.
Mercury was the messenger of the gods, do you think the Romans had figured this proximity thing out long before us? 😯
@@daivahataka It's possible. Figuring out which small dot orbiting a larger one remains closest to another dot isn't exactly difficult to figure out.
A simple visual aid and a bit of basic maths is all you need.
Okay maybe not basic, but fairly simple in comparison to the abominations that modern mathematics has associated itself with now. It's like the prostitute of knowledge, everyone uses it and brags about it to all the other sciences/subjects when they give it a spin but it's not really maths at that point it's some strange hybrid creature that you just don't ever want to look at in the daylight.
@@daivahataka They named Mercury after Mercury because it travelled the fastest.
@The Purest Form of Cancer, he could just be a good friend, always there should you need him, but never getting *that* close or *that* far away. Besides, I think his one true love is the sun.
Wow. Didn't know that, very educational, love it! :)
Thank Princess Celestia, I guess. This was a very enlightening video! You explained it very well.
Quiz show host: "What is the closest planet to..."
CGP Grey: "Mercury!!"
Quis show host: "But I didn't get to..."
CGP Grey: "Doesn't matter. I'm going with Mercury."
Quiz show host: Well too bad, the question was "what is the closest planet to the Moon" which orbits the Earth, so you lose.
@Dylan Yin reread the quetion again, slowly
Quiz show host:so mercury is the mostest closest to mercury?
@@andrewcheng1948 well, tecnically the true
Dylan Yin *REED* THE QUESTION CAREFULLY
2:23 a hidden bee next to his coffie cup
Ye *bee* havin' th'best eyesight.
Kill it with fire.
EASTER EGG
And 4 seconds later, boom! There isn't any bees
Edit:Ya like jazz?
@@andrasaronkazai5179 no I dont
Aww Thx you su mutch for pluto ! the littel " Slap " noise make me smiles :D
This is a very enjoyable bit of science. I also like how it is 3.14 long. Neat.
As expected from god of messangers, he is the closest to everyone at anytime
But everyone loves Apollo and/or Helios.
Not quite anytime, a bit more like *most* of the time
mostest closest
Not anytime closest but mostest closest.
Got something I'm supposed to deliver, your hands only
Thoroughly enjoyed the reference to Saturn Devouring His Son in Saturn's person graphic
I didn't understand. Saturn had which son? The child was with The earth's person graphic right?
@@forestreee In mythology, the god Saturn (Chronos in Greek) would devour his own children. Jupiter/Zeus was his son and defeated him.
@@forestreee And there was a painting by Francisco Goya depicting Saturn as a crazed murderer, with blood dripping down his face as he consumed one of his children
Saturn Devouring His Scone
Thank you for saying this. I was looking in the comments to see if anyone else saw it 😅
I come back to this video from time to time
Wow thank you. I learned something new today.
"Who do you want to be the closest too?"
Mercury: *Yes.*
Inclusive or doesn't work that way! A proper joke would be "Do you want to be closest to Venus, Earth or Mars?" - Mercury: Yes.
@@metasystem8625
Or rather: "How many planets would you like to be closest to?"
Little merc-boi: *Yes.*
Polyamory! 🎉
@@pranavlimaye No. The "inclusive or" joke only works if the question is a yes-or-no question with more than one possibility. For example, "Would you like to be closest to Earth or Mars?" could be split up into "Would you like to be closest to Earth?" - No. - "OK, would you like to be closest to Mars?" - Yes.
In everyday speech, these two questions are contracted, with the expected answer being "Earth" or "Mars". NOW you can instead answer "yes" to make a joke, with the yes meaning "Yes, I would like to be closest to one of the two."
Asking "How many" or "Which" etc can never be answered by yes, and thus the joke does not work.
It was a bad joke from the start, since it is only funny if the reader did not pick up on the fact that the answer is possible, since we're so used to picking one of the alternatives.
But now it's just sad since people apparently forgot how logic works entirely.
@@metasystem8625 shut fucking up joke police
Who else thoroughly enjoyed the little romance scenes. Best rose drawings ever
Better love story than twilight
Nice explanation thanks!
Mercury is a player
"spoiler: no"
before it was "spoiler: not what you think"
sorry, it was "spoiler: you're wrong"
Oh and now it's missing the spoiler part completely.
DaDARKPass saw that too weird that he changed it
before it was "you are wrong"
DaDARKPass It actually used to be “spoiler: your wrong”
@@Bradley_UA Yeah whoops. I forgot what it was kinda.
Probably no is the mostest closest
0:17 “planets are not people queuing for coffee”.
Me: Spinning coffee shop.
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This video is in one word: delightful
The video that made me start watching CGP
2:52 I love the detail of Saturn having blood on his chin.
@@Kanyewest3 Saturn, father of Jupiter, received a prophecy that one of his offspring would overthrow him, so he ate all his kids immediately after they were born except Jupiter, because his mom (Saturn's wife) was able to trick Saturn. Jupiter grew up and was able to cut all his siblings out of Saturn (because they're gods and trivial things like being eaten alive won't kill them) thus fulfilling the prophecy (which evidently, wouldn't have happened if Saturn just tried being a decent dad).
(Of course, in the original Greek legend, they're called Zeus and Cronos, not Jupiter and Saturn. Also, Caelus was the father of Saturn, and Uranus was the father of Cronos, confusingly enough.)
@@jeffbenton6183 in other words uranus should be caelus for consistency.
@@nicolasinvernizzi6140 Exactly
@@jeffbenton6183 are self-fullfilling prophecies a common thing in ancient myths? because this reminded me of how oedipus' parents were told they would be kill/married by their son and so they abandon him, which just leads to the whole father killing/mother marrying thing.
@@lightwaves1859 yup. a huge part of those myths can be summed up as just "you can't change fate"
No wonder he's the messenger of the Gods, he's bffs with all of them
I was rewatching this and realized it'd be an amazing short just a suggestion
Great explanation 🔥🔥🔥
Grey: “which planet is the mostest closest?”
Also Grey: *hops on a space shuttle for research field trip*
He didn't do that.
@@DoctressCalibrator r/woosh
With the frizz? No way!
@@DoctressCalibrator What, Grey didn't make the first manned mission to Mercury?
I should have stayed home today 😩
Fun fact: Mercury is also the closest to the sun
IT IS!!!???
THAT'S UNPOSSIBLE!!!!!
Or is it?
IMPOSSIBLE! THAT CANT BE!
:mindblown:
@@michaellyden2580 what is UNPOSSIBLE
When the narrator say "You too pluto" i feel irrationally happy
Love the animation!
Different metrics:
Is closest planet to Earth most of the time: Mercury
Has closest approach to Earth: Venus
Can be closest at any given time: {Mercury, Venus, Mars}
What about the Sun? Is it ever closest to Earth?
@@N1ghthavvk Looks possible, yeah! Hypothetically, it'd be true any time all 3 of the other inner system planets are just a bit out of the way and we get the full glory of Sól shining down on us X3
@@N1ghthavvk Not a planet but possible
I would add: Is easiest to get to, Is easiest to get to and back. My guess is the latter is Venus, for the former I’m not sure if it’s Venus or Mars. (I didn’t check the orbital speeds.)
This would have made a better video, "it depends what you mean by closest"
Mercury is basically that one family member where everyone just loves
@DANIEL DANG unfortunately
Or the one family member that everybody somehow can't get rid of. >_>
I too equate planets with family members.
mercury is the youngest sibling, im pluto
@@brownxperson so you're adopted and/or they suddenly hate you for some reason?
Thank you so much for such a beautiful animation.
Now it clear all doubts related to distance of planets.
Damn, who would've thought the small guy at the front of the line was the biggest playboy of them all.
This sounds kinda like the writing in a childrens' book in the best way, especially the "mostest closest" bit.
... Well, now I want to see this as a childrens' book.
I'll make one :)
Xd
Same tbh
@@zebraaapje3320 yay
A very good picture book.
Maybe CGP Grey could make a picture book someday.
Mercury just out here being friends with everyone.
"friends" 😉
@Русский Гопник That is such a cute image - thank you for that!
Damn mercury has better game than me and it’s not even alive
Mercury is so nice
Teacher: No, Pluto is no longer considered a plan--
CGP Grey: mOstEsT clOSesT
Many planet scientists still consider Pluto a planet.
@@lioneatsorbedham2614
No they don’t.
@@abcdefghilihgfedcba Only astronomers don't consider Pluto a planet. Please don't mix the two up.
@@abcdefghilihgfedcba Here, it says that astronomers decided that Pluto isn't a planet anymore, but ONLY astronomers.
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@@lioneatsorbedham2614 well no. If that were true, you would end up having to memorize over 100 planets since there is other objects like Pluto in our solar system. Scientists eventually got uncomfortable of calling Pluto a planet and they decided that it should be defined as dwarf planet. Also an astronomer is a scientist.
Which planets are you closest to
Mercury: YES
Mercury is the closest planet for every other planet, but only one planet can be the closest for mercury 🤔
For Mercury, only Venus is the closest.
Russophile It changes constantly there isn’t a closest
I died
guess you could say that Mercury really 'gets around'
get it, wink-wink nudge-nudge?
I started this video thinking that i already knew what i was going to see, well, i was wrong. Thanks you for this video, it's great and i love it
Mercury : i love you earth
Also mercury : most of the time.........
For those who wanted the "occasional closest" rather than "mostest closest"
The closest possible opposition distance between Earth andVenus is 38 million kilometers.
The minimum distance from the Earthto Mars is about 54.6 million kilometers.
thank you
thanks
That's actually the answer I was expecting from this video.
Answer i was looking for thank you
What’s that in bananas?
This is so delightfully appropriate for the planet named after the messenger of the gods. Who else can pass notes between them better but the mostest closest?
Playing Schopl jeopardy:
Teacher: Which planet is closest-
Student: MERCURY