If you thought Venus or Mars is the closest planet to Earth, you are wrong, this is the result gets by scientists in US

News24xx.com - For so long, Venus has been called as the closest planet from Earth, both by NASA and other sources on Google. But a recent study is present and is ready to deny the long-standing theory. The team of researchers from the United States succeeded in creating the latest calculations that revealed the closest planet from Earth.

The group consisted of Tom Stockman of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Gabriel Monroe of the US Army Engineer Research Development Center, and Samuel Cordner of NASA. They claim that on average Mercury is nearer to Earth than Venus.

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 This is because Mercury has a smaller orbit towards the Sun. The average distance of Mercury with Earth revealed by the research team is 0.39 Astronomical Unit (AU), or 39% of the distance between the Earth and the Sun. While the average distance of Earth to Venus is 0.72 AU.

In the same study, they also concluded that Mercury is on average the closest neighbor to all planets in the Solar System. This even applies to Pluto. However, Stockman, Monroe and Cordner continue to acknowledge that the old method of calling Venus the closest planet to Earth was not entirely wrong.

This is because both have a smaller distance from the average distance of Mercury-Earth when it is at its closest point. Earth and Venus are only a distance of 0.28 AU when they are at their closest point. While the farthest distance that can be produced by both is 1.72 AU, almost twice the distance of the Earth to the Sun.

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