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Telescopes Aim at Mercury

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BBC News article anticipating the 2003 transit.

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Title: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mercury passes across Sun
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Science Central - 511026 - The planet treks over our star's face - an event that occurs only about 12 times a century.

Category: International - World - Service - News - Online - British - Foreign


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