[AZ-Observing] Mercury

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA is about to embark on its hottest 
mission ever, to Mercury. The Messenger spacecraft, to be launched 
next week, will be blasted by up to 700-degree heat as it orbits the 
tiny planet closest to the sun - so close that it would be as though 
11 suns were beating down on Earth.

See
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu

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Jeff Hopkins
HPO SOFT
http://www.hposoft.com/Astro/astro.html

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