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Chandrayaan-1, India's first lunar mission, has entered its nominal science orbit and dropped an impact probe onto the Moon's surface.
Science results from the second flyby of Mercury by MESSENGER were presented at a Science Update on Wednesday, 29 October.
The Phoenix Mars lander mission has officially ended, it sent its last signal on 2 November and is now receiving too little solar power as the Sun gets lower in the arctic sky.
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- Discovery of Comet 2P Encke, shortest period (3.3 years) of any known comet, by Pierre Mechain.
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