The Iron Planet

The Iron Planet

Clark R. Chapman, in Asfrononzy
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(Nov. 19881, 1027 N. 7th St., Milwaukee, Wisc. 53233.

More than a decade after America's un- manned Mariner 10 flew near the planet Mercury during 1974-75, scientists have fi-nally digested all of the data from the flight. And they are starting to ask some big questions, reports Chapman, of Tuc- son's Planetary Science Institute.
Located about midway between the Earth and the Sun, Mercury is a "truly bi- zarre" planet. Its rock cmst is unusually t...

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