Thread: Progress of Messenger in the Solar system
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Old 28-March-2008, 09:54 PM
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Messenger is at its sixth aphelion just a few miles inside Venusian orbit (well, maybe more than just a few miles). It will be back at Mercury orbit at about this time in May and again on 6 October when Mercury will also be there.

By year's end, Messenger will be heading toward its ninth perihelion.
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