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kennyc · 03-19-2011, 07:30 AM

Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet, has gained a yearlong visitor from Earth - a spacecraft named Messenger that mission controllers guided successfully into a long, looping orbit around the planet Thursday night after a six-year flight across 4.9 billion miles of space.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...MN6Q1IEORV.DTL

U.S. spacecraft now have orbited six of the solar system's eight planets in all: Earth, first, in 1957; Mars in 1971; Venus in 1975; Jupiter in 1995; Saturn in 2004; and now, Mercury, in 2011 ...

03-19-2011, 07:30 AM	#1
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,904 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	Messenger arrives in orbit around Mercury Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet, has gained a yearlong visitor from Earth - a spacecraft named Messenger that mission controllers guided successfully into a long, looping orbit around the planet Thursday night after a six-year flight across 4.9 billion miles of space. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...MN6Q1IEORV.DTL U.S. spacecraft now have orbited six of the solar system's eight planets in all: Earth, first, in 1957; Mars in 1971; Venus in 1975; Jupiter in 1995; Saturn in 2004; and now, Mercury, in 2011 ... Last edited by kennyc; 03-19-2011 at 07:32 AM.