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New crater names as MESSENGER prepares to crash on Mercury

30 April 2015 Astronomy Now

As five impact craters on Mercury receive names, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft is about to create another, since it has run out of propellant and is predicted to impact on the surface of the planet at 8:26 pm BST today.