What Planet Has The Shortest Year

Mercury orbits the sun once every 88 earth days, thus its year is 88 days long. The greater the orbital distance from the sun, the longer the year on that planet. On this program they talked about this planet orbiting another star. This planet was so close to the central star that its orbit only took three and a half days to complete. So, A year on that hot ball of gas planet would only be three and a half days.

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