Post subject: The incredible shrinking planet...Mercury
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:48 pm
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Interesting article here from the BBC about how Mercury has been getting smaller through its history while, at the same time, bumping up the power of its magnetic field.
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:25 pm
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This is very interesting, Lonecat. I'd read about this the other day, but it got put out-of-mind from other things. It just shows that the solar system is a truly dynamic place, not static & unchanging as we were taught in school.
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