The MESSENGER spacecraft is expected to end its mission today with a planned crash into planet Mercury. Read more on-line at:
http://earthsky.org/space/six-cool-things-about-messengers-april-30-mercury- crash
Slooh will cover the event with a live show that begin at 3 p.m. EDT (19:00 UTC) on Thursday, April 30. Watch on-line at: http://main.slooh.com/
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73 de JoAnne K9JKM
Cool, won't this be the first spacecraft to "land" on Mercury?
73 John AF5CC
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:07 PM, JoAnne Maenpaa [email protected] wrote:
The MESSENGER spacecraft is expected to end its mission today with a planned crash into planet Mercury. Read more on-line at:
http://earthsky.org/space/six-cool-things-about-messengers-april-30-mercury- crash
Slooh will cover the event with a live show that begin at 3 p.m. EDT (19:00 UTC) on Thursday, April 30. Watch on-line at: http://main.slooh.com/
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73 de JoAnne K9JKM
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Not sure who has been there before Messenger. The Amateur-DSN guys in Europe are copying it. Status of the Deep Space Network and what is being communicated with is displayed at:
http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
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73 de JoAnne K9JKM
AMSAT VP User Services
From: John Geiger [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 12:11 PM To: JoAnne Maenpaa Cc: AMSAT BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] On-line Coverage of Messenger Crash into Mercury Today
Cool, won't this be the first spacecraft to "land" on Mercury?
73 John AF5CC
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:07 PM, JoAnne Maenpaa [email protected] wrote:
The MESSENGER spacecraft is expected to end its mission today with a planned crash into planet Mercury. Read more on-line at:
http://earthsky.org/space/six-cool-things-about-messengers-april-30-mercury- crash
Slooh will cover the event with a live show that begin at 3 p.m. EDT (19:00 UTC) on Thursday, April 30. Watch on-line at: http://main.slooh.com/
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73 de JoAnne K9JKM
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Sorry. I read this as Venus. My mistake (and lack of coffee)
--------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] On-line Coverage of Messenger Crash into Mercury Today From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" [email protected] Date: 4/30/15 11:17 am To: "'John Geiger'" [email protected] Cc: "'AMSAT BB'" [email protected]
Not sure who has been there before Messenger. The Amateur-DSN guys in Europe are copying it. Status of the Deep Space Network and what is being communicated with is displayed at:
http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
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73 de JoAnne K9JKM
AMSAT VP User Services
From: John Geiger [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 12:11 PM To: JoAnne Maenpaa Cc: AMSAT BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] On-line Coverage of Messenger Crash into Mercury Today
Cool, won't this be the first spacecraft to "land" on Mercury?
73 John AF5CC
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:07 PM, JoAnne Maenpaa [email protected] wrote:
The MESSENGER spacecraft is expected to end its mission today with a planned crash into planet Mercury. Read more on-line at:
http://earthsky.org/space/six-cool-things-about-messengers-april-30-mercury- crash
Slooh will cover the event with a live show that begin at 3 p.m. EDT (19:00 UTC) on Thursday, April 30. Watch on-line at: http://main.slooh.com/
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73 de JoAnne K9JKM
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Russians "soft" landed first in 1970 with Venera 7.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera
--------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] On-line Coverage of Messenger Crash into Mercury Today From: "John Geiger" [email protected] Date: 4/30/15 11:10 am To: "JoAnne Maenpaa" [email protected] Cc: "AMSAT BB" [email protected]
Cool, won't this be the first spacecraft to "land" on Mercury?
73 John AF5CC
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:07 PM, JoAnne Maenpaa [email protected] wrote:
The MESSENGER spacecraft is expected to end its mission today with a planned crash into planet Mercury. Read more on-line at:
http://earthsky.org/space/six-cool-things-about-messengers-april-30-mercury- crash
Slooh will cover the event with a live show that begin at 3 p.m. EDT (19:00 UTC) on Thursday, April 30. Watch on-line at: http://main.slooh.com/
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73 de JoAnne K9JKM
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Venera 7 soft landed, sort of, chute failed and it fell over, on Venus. The Russians never sent a spacecraft to Mercury, that I can find a reference to. The US Mariner 10 did a flyby in 1974 but as far as I can tell Messenger will be the first to land, or crash, on Mercury.
John AG9D
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On Apr 30, 2015, at 12:17 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Russians "soft" landed first in 1970 with Venera 7.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera
--------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] On-line Coverage of Messenger Crash into Mercury Today From: "John Geiger" [email protected] Date: 4/30/15 11:10 am To: "JoAnne Maenpaa" [email protected] Cc: "AMSAT BB" [email protected]
Cool, won't this be the first spacecraft to "land" on Mercury?
73 John AF5CC
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:07 PM, JoAnne Maenpaa [email protected] wrote:
The MESSENGER spacecraft is expected to end its mission today with a planned crash into planet Mercury. Read more on-line at:
http://earthsky.org/space/six-cool-things-about-messengers-april-30-mercury- crash
Slooh will cover the event with a live show that begin at 3 p.m. EDT (19:00 UTC) on Thursday, April 30. Watch on-line at: http://main.slooh.com/
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73 de JoAnne K9JKM
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