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Mercury Gets a Meteoroid Shower from Comet Encke

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 10, 2015.  The planet Mercury is being pelted regularly by bits of dust from an ancient comet, a new study has concluded. This has a discernible effect in the planet’s tenuous atmosphere and may lead to a new paradigm on how these airless bodies maintain their ethereal envelopes.

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