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Historic First: A Spacecraft Orbits Mercury

Subject: Historic First: A Spacecraft Orbits Mercury
From: NASA Science News <snglist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:41:53 -0600

NASA Science News for March 18, 2011

NASA?s MESSENGER spacecraft successfully achieved orbit around Mercury at approximately 9 p.m. EDT on March 17th. This marks the first time a spacecraft has orbited the solar system's innermost planet.

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