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November 2005 Top Stories
»» MESSENGER Meets Venus!
[Friday, November 11, 2005] On Nov. 7, 2005, the MESSENGER spacecraft passed inside the orbit of Venus. While Venus was about 54 million miles from the spacecraft at this time, the spacecraft was 67.2 million miles (108.1 million kilometers) from the Sun.
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»» MESSENGER Team Prepares for December Maneuver
[Friday, November 11, 2005] After successfully uploading new software to the MESSENGER spacecraft, mission controllers are setting their sights on the December Deep Space Maneuver (DSM-1), when the craft's large bipropellant thruster will be fired for the first time.
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»» The proximity of Mercury's spin to Cassini state 1
[Wednesday, November 16, 2005] "In determining Mercury's core structure from its rotational properties, the value of the normalized moment of inertia from the location of Cassini 1 is crucial."
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