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Messenger Spacecraft About To Orbit Mercury
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:58 am by pdpete
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At 8:45 EDT NASA's Messenger spacecraft will fire its thruster for nearly 14 min. slowing the spacecraft by 862 meters per second to move into orbit around Mercury at a minimum altitude of 200 kilometers.
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