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Mercury 3,031 miles (4,878 km) 75% Venus 7,504 miles (12,104 km) 50% Earth 7,909 miles (12,756 km) 55% Mars 4,208 miles (6,787 km) 45% Moon 2,155 miles...
Mercury is closer to the sun than any other planet, but it is not quite the hottest of the group. That distinction goes to nearby Venus, where the temperature climbs to 900°F (482°C), owing to the planet's dense, heat-trapping atmosphere...
Launch--Aug. 2004 Earth--flyby Venus--flybys Mercury--flybys Arrival--March...
MESSENGER isn't due to enter Mercury's orbit until March 2011. But the probe will be busy all along the way, getting a gravity boost from Earth next year, then Venus twice in an ever tightening spiral toward the first planet from...
...extraordinary coincidence, during Jefferson's first term as President, Callender also exposed Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings. Callender claimed that "Dusky Sally," a.k.a. the "African Venus," was the President's slave concubine, who had borne him five children. "There is not an individual in the neighborhood of Charlottesville who does not believe the story," Callender wrote, "and not a few who know it." Jefferson never confirmed or denied Callender's story. But the likely truth of the Hemings affair was dramatically bolstered by DNA tests published in 1998, which indicated that a Jefferson male had sired at least...