Subject: MESSENGER Mercury Flyby #3
From: adamod <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:19:31 -0500

ATIG Members-

This is coming to you a bit early, but I thought I'd get trajectory plots of
MESSENGER's third Mercury flyby in your email before Cathy Osgood retires
from 50 years of service to the US space program and her address is
deactivated.  Closest approach to Mercury will be just before 5 PM CDT on
September 29.  This mission's final gravity assist sets the stage for
MESSENGER to achieve orbit about Mercury on March 18, 2011.  Launch was
August 3, 2004.

-Dan