01-October-2008, 10:13 PM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Planetary Society Weblog: Science Timeline for Monday's MESSENGER flyby of Mercury
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There was a press briefing this morning on the upcoming flyby of Mercury by MESSENGER. Closest approach happens Monday, October 6, at 08:40 UTC. It's the spacecraft's second of three flybys before eventually entering orbit in March of 2011. Here's the high points of the briefing and the plans for the encounter. Below, I've got a detailed timeline focusing mostly on the imaging plans.
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Previously, from August 4 or thereabouts:
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MESSENGER Mission News: Sharing the Wealth: MESSENGER Team Delivers Mercury Flyby 1 Data to Planetary Data System
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This could be yet another opportunity for reluctant believers in weird gravitational physics to analyze the captured navigational data, plug it into their superior non-mainstream physics formulas, produce a more accurate analysis report that would support their ideas, and demonstrate to the world how much better off we'd be if only people would accept that the weird physics is the one true physics. Just saying they could, if they had the passion and time, maybe, and funding, if they really cared, and their ideas were actually sound and supportable, you know?
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No takers? Not gonna take us to the promised land?
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