[amsat-bb] On-line Coverage of Messenger Crash into Mercury Today

Thu Apr 30 17:18:40 UTC 2015

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" <k9jkm at comcast.net>
Date: 4/30/15 11:17 am
To: "'John Geiger'" <af5cc at fidmail.com>
Cc: "'AMSAT BB'" <AMSAT-BB at amsat.org>

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

 k9jkm at amsat.org

 AMSAT VP User Services

 From: John Geiger [mailto:af5cc at fidmail.com] 
 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 <k9jkm at comcast.net> 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

 k9jkm at amsat.org

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