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gndonald View Member Profile	Aug 15 2005, 03:36 PM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 212 Joined: 19-July 05 Member No.: 442	While the likelyhood of a Mercury Lander mission is very low, I was wondering if any planning/studies have been done on such a project?

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gndonald Mercury Landers Aug 15 2005, 03:36 PM

Patteroast The European 'BepiColumbo' mission planned... Aug 15 2005, 04:13 PM

Bob Shaw QUOTE (Patteroast @ Aug 15 2005, 05:13 PM)The... Aug 15 2005, 07:05 PM

JRehling QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Aug 15 2005, 12:05 PM)The p... Aug 16 2005, 03:55 PM

djellison Impactor could work Doug Aug 15 2005, 07:24 PM

BruceMoomaw ESA studied alternative possible designs for a Bep... Aug 15 2005, 07:30 PM

remcook Although the Bepi-Colombo lander is cancelled, ESA... Aug 16 2005, 08:44 AM

djellison Well - studies dont equal flight hardware. Maybe ... Aug 16 2005, 08:57 AM

remcook actually, hardware is actually made at this moment... Aug 16 2005, 03:01 PM

BruceMoomaw (1) That Mercury smash-and-grab mission is a real... Aug 16 2005, 07:53 PM

DDAVIS [quote=BruceMoomaw,Aug 16 2005, 07:53 PM] (2) Ac... Aug 16 2005, 10:30 PM

JRehling Not to be a party-pooper, but the degree of spec... Aug 17 2005, 06:44 AM

djellison Well quite - of the planets on which one COULD lan... Aug 16 2005, 10:46 PM

BruceMoomaw You're forgetting 2003 UB313, Doug... (Or, alt... Aug 17 2005, 12:57 AM

um3k QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Aug 16 2005, 08:57 PM)Yo... Aug 17 2005, 01:06 AM

Richard Trigaux JRehling, your smash and grab idea is interesting.... Aug 17 2005, 06:11 AM

edstrick JRehling observed " We probably have, or will... Aug 17 2005, 10:59 AM

JRehling QUOTE (edstrick @ Aug 17 2005, 03:59 AM)JRehl... Aug 17 2005, 04:02 PM

Stephen QUOTE (edstrick @ Aug 17 2005, 10:59 AM)Where... Sep 1 2005, 02:36 AM

Richard Trigaux What is astonishing with Mercury is that it closel... Aug 17 2005, 12:29 PM

centsworth_II If getting a refector on Mercury is the objective,... Aug 17 2005, 04:44 PM

tty Here is a recent study of the probability of findi... Aug 17 2005, 05:48 PM

BruceMoomaw We don't want a reflector on Mercury for libra... Aug 17 2005, 10:12 PM

Myran Cant but agree with BruceMoomaw, libration studies... Aug 18 2005, 05:55 AM

Richard Trigaux centsworth_II your idea is interesting, but it wou... Aug 18 2005, 06:40 AM

BruceMoomaw I honestly don't know why they had it in mind,... Aug 19 2005, 06:40 AM

JRehling QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Aug 18 2005, 11:40 PM)I ... Aug 19 2005, 01:54 PM

BruceMoomaw Well, I know that, John. I presumed that Richard ... Aug 19 2005, 06:23 PM

JRehling QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Aug 19 2005, 11:23 AM)We... Aug 19 2005, 09:31 PM

BruceMoomaw ESA was thinking about a lander only 3 degrees fro... Sep 1 2005, 03:01 AM

tasp Just throwing out some ideas, may be helpful in th... Nov 26 2005, 06:14 PM

Bob Shaw QUOTE (tasp @ Nov 26 2005, 07:14 PM)Just thro... Nov 26 2005, 06:30 PM

tty QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Nov 26 2005, 08:30 PM)The k... Nov 27 2005, 04:42 PM

DEChengst QUOTE (tty @ Nov 27 2005, 05:42 PM)The best a... Nov 27 2005, 09:20 PM

BruceMoomaw There was, I've heard (though I haven't co... Nov 26 2005, 09:13 PM

edstrick Two or three years ago, there was some reporting o... Nov 27 2005, 08:43 PM

JRehling I can't find the reference to the Mercury smas... Nov 28 2005, 01:55 AM

BruceMoomaw Keep in mind that this thing will fly past Mercury... Nov 28 2005, 02:11 AM

ljk4-1 In this 1971 book, Beyond the Moon: Future Explora... May 30 2006, 06:15 PM

BruceMoomaw NASA never -- and I mean never -- put any Mercury ... May 31 2006, 05:45 AM

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