Messenger will end on April, crash into Mercury

[jmorgan]

Looks like it will crash into Mercury on April 30th. !0 years on that mission.


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Main web site
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/index.php

[jmorgan]

tomorrow the last day.....

[jmorgan]

Saw that but I am guessing the Sun's influence is quite a lot so not only does Messenger have to deal with the planets gravity, it has to deal with the Sun. No expert but looking at the orbit, they are desperately trying to keep it off the surface in that orbit.

Edit
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/whereis/index.php

[funkyrobot]

I heard this morning that it has now crashed. Can't find any news sources for it though.

[Hooli]

Bye little space craft

[Eric Mc]

funkyrobot said:

I heard this morning that it has now crashed. Can't find any news sources for it though.

How did you find out then?

[Russ35]

not due to impact till about 19:30 UTC

[funkyrobot]

Russ35 said:

not due to impact till about 19:30 UTC

Ok.

Eric - heard it on the radio this morning.

[Eric Mc]

Sounds like a news source to me - even if it wasn't correct .

[funkyrobot]

Indeed. Heard it on the way to work. Once there I checked the Internet for some sort of story. Nothing.

I'll check again in the morning.

[jmorgan]

Here ti
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?...