" Lundy ( February 3, 1964 – January 21, 1998 ), Rodney " Khalil " Lundy, their uncle Jessie Lee Daniels, and later friends Trisco Pearson and Charles " Mercury " Nelson ( December 19, 1964 – March 9, 1995 ).

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

rightThe Mariner 10 spacecraft launched on November 3, 1973 and was the first to use a gravity assist trajectory, accelerating as it entered the gravitational influence of Venus, then being flung by the planet's gravity onto a slightly different course to reach Mercury.

In order of increasing distance from the Sun, they are the four terrestrials, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, then the four gas giants, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Divide the distance from the Sun to Saturn into 100 parts ; then Mercury is separated by four such parts from the Sun, Venus by 4 + 3 = 7 such parts, the Earth by 4 + 6 = 10, Mars by 4 + 12 = 16.

Let the distance from the Sun to Saturn be taken as 100, then Mercury is separated by 4 such parts from the Sun.

Captain Grissom then underwent a series of physical and psychological tests and on April 13, 1959, was notified that he had been chosen as one of the seven Mercury astronauts.

Mercury then gave the net to the temple of Anubis at Canopus to protect the sacred spot.

Freddie Mercury ( then known as Farrokh / Freddie Bulsara ) was a fan of Smile, and encouraged them to experiment with more elaborate stage and recording techniques after Staffell's departure in 1970.

In these situations, a planet in retrograde motion — always either Mercury or Venus, from the point of view of the Earth — will " drop back " in right ascension until it almost allows another planet to overtake it, but then the former planet will resume its forward motion and thereafter appear to draw away from it again.

The production then moved to the Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate in London and ran there for several months.

The Mercury then defeated the Los Angeles Sparks in the conference finals, winning 2 – 1 in a series that ended Lisa Leslie's career.

The Mercury then went on to beat the Indiana Fever 3 – 2 in the best of 5 series to capture the second title in their franchise history.

The new model, called the " Mustang II ", was introduced two months before the first 1973 oil crisis, and its reduced size allowed it to compete against imported sports coupés such as the Japanese Toyota Celica and the European Ford Capri ( then Ford-built in Germany and Britain, sold in U. S. by Mercury as a captive import car ).

In January 1964, after several successful albums and lack of money from Vee-Jay, The 4 Seasons left Vee-Jay Records and moved to Philips Records, then a division of Mercury Records.

The game progresses through the Solar system, from the Moon to Mercury, then outbound towards Pluto's moon Charon.

Stevens then signed with Mercury Records with whom Stevens recorded a series of hit records in the 1960s that included songs such as " Ahab the Arab ," " Harry the Hairy Ape ," " Funny Man ," the original recording of " Santa Claus Is Watching You ," and " Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving, Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills.

As reported by the Huffington Post, " the article in the San Jose Mercury News was taken at face value, and like a bad case of telephone gossip, repeated and embellished across various media outlets around the world ... which then became quickly duplicated by others in the media.

The Lynx then swept the Phoenix Mercury in two games to win their first conference championship.

The Fever then lost in 5 games to the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA Finals.

On 1 April 1999, Mercury Energy, then the major lines and supply company for Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, was split between lines and supply.

Mercury Energy then became the name of Mighty River's retail business, and the sub-transmission and distribution business of Mercury Energy was renamed Vector.

Ms. Frizzle then takes them to the Sun and then Mercury, Venus and Mars before flying into the asteroid belt.

The model was offered with comparatively few changes through the 1977 model year, and was then discontinued to make room for the new Mercury Zephyr for the 1978 model year.

Mercury included the cohesive principle, so that when it left in smoke the wood fell apart.

Top row: Mars ( left ), Mercury ( planet ) | Mercury ( right ); bottom row: Moon ( left ), Pluto ( center ), and Haumea ( dwarf planet ) | Haumea ( right ), to scale.

On 5 June 1594 Barentsz left the island of Texel aboard the small ship Mercury, as part of a group of three ships sent out in separate directions to try and enter the Kara Sea, with the hopes of finding the Northeast passage above Siberia.

In 1992, the band released their major label debut Hit to Death in the Future Head after the recording of which Donahue left the band to concentrate on Mercury Rev.

She holds a cornucopia, with Mercury holding a patera at her left side.

On the left, is a model of the planet Mercury, showing its closest approach to the earth ; on the right, is information about Mercury and the beginning of his commentary on the planet Venus.

At the conclusion of her Mercury deal in 1967, she was left without a recording contract for the remainder of the decade.

On the acroteria of the pediment are three statues by John Smyth: Mercury on the right, with his Caduceus and purse ; Fidelity on the left, with her finger on her lip and a key in her hand ; and Hibernia in the centre, resting on her spear and holding a harp.

Clementine's camera reveals ( from right to left ) the Moon lit by earthshine, the Sun's glare rising over the Moon's dark wiktionary: Limb | limb, and the planets Saturn, Mars and Mercury ( planet ) | Mercury ( the three dots at lower left ).

" In 1982, after he had released a few more singles, notably the Top 40 " Written Down in My Heart ," Stevens left RCA and returned to Mercury Records, the label that made him a star in the early 1960s.

Although significantly more aerodynamic than before, Mercury left the basic shape of the Grand Marquis intact including its radiator grille.

The single later peaked at No. 37 and was re-scheduled into 2007, because Womack found more songs that she wanted to record, however it was never released and Womack left Mercury.

Many coins in the " Mercury " series exhibit striking defects, most notably the fact that the line separating the two horizontal bands in the center of the fasces is often missing, in whole or in part ; the 1945 issue of the Philadelphia Mint hardly ever appears with this line complete from left to right, and as a result, such coins ( designated as " FSB " for " full split bands ") are worth more than usual for uncirculated specimens.

At the age of seventeen, Foster left the farm and moved to Washington, D. C., where he would eventually work for Mercury Records and ABC-Paramount Records ( 1955 ).

After the Restoration, Ashmole was granted a new crest in place of the greyhound, one which reflected his interest in astrology: On a wreath sable and or the planet Mercury collocated in the middle of the caelestiall Signe Gemini proper his right hand extended toward heaven and left holding a Caducan rod or.

Vulcanoids are probably similar to Mercury in colour and albedo, and may contain material left over from the earliest stages of the Solar System's formation.

Other Autocodes were developed for the Titan ( computer ) ( a prototype Atlas 2 ) at Cambridge and the Ferranti Mercury.

For Daytona 1967, two Mk II models ( chassis 1016 and 1047 ) were fitted with Mercury 7. 0 liter engines.

" Hengist notes that his retinue is the result of this process, and through this custom Hengist and his brother Horsa were made generals " out of respect to our ancestors, who enjoyed the same honour ," and so they have arrived in Vortigern's kingdom " under the good guidance of Mercury.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante meets the spirit of Justinian in the Heaven of Mercury, among the other blessed souls whose earthly ambitions were imperfectly aligned with the Divine Will.

In the " Spotlight On The Suffolk Scene " article, of the Chronicle & Mercury in June 1949, it was noted that a great many houses were category five-derelict, and ready for demolition.

Because of their small size, it was said that the Mercury spacecraft were worn, not ridden.

A number of Mercury boilerplate spacecraft ( including mockup / prototype / replica spacecraft, made from non-flight materials or lacking production spacecraft systems and / or hardware ) were also made by NASA and McDonnell Aircraft.

The Atlas D rocket required extra strengthening in order to handle the increased weight of the Mercury spacecraft beyond that of the nuclear warheads they were designed to carry.

The Titan missile was also considered for use for later Mercury missions ; however, the Mercury program was terminated before these missions were flown.

During the launch phase of the mission, the Mercury spacecraft and astronaut were protected from launch vehicle failures by the Launch Escape System.

Six manned Mercury missions were made, all controlled from the Mercury Control Center near the launch site.

Orbits for the other planets were also calculated, by, but only the eccentricity data for Earth and Mercury are available online.

Venus, Mercury and the outer planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were all identified by Babylonian astronomers.

Discrepancies between the observed perihelion precession rate of the planet Mercury and that predicted by classical mechanics were prominent among the forms of experimental evidence leading to the acceptance of Einstein's Theory of Relativity ( in particular, his General Theory of Relativity ), which accurately predicted the anomalies.

To the Ancient Greeks, some " stars ", known as planets ( Greek πλανήτης ( planētēs ), meaning " wanderer "), represented various important deities, from which the names of the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were taken.

NASCAR tracks at the time were mainly dirt tracks with modest barriers, and during the 1957 season a Mercury Monterey crashed into the crowd.

On May 15, 2008, a spokesperson for Mercury Nashville announced that Twain and Lange were separating after Lange allegedly had an affair with Twain's best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud.

* February 5 – An observer in Wilmington, North Carolina reports to the Edinburgh newspaper Caledonian Mercury that three ships were seized by British men-of-war on the charge of carrying official documents without stamps.

Many of the major gods were related to Greek gods ; the primary god worshiped at the time of the arrival of Caesar was Teutates, the Gallic equivalent of Mercury.

In a joking nod to the sinking of his Mercury craft Grissom named the first Gemini spacecraft Molly Brown after the popular Broadway show The Unsinkable Molly Brown ; NASA publicity officials were unhappy with this name.

There were five other manned missions using Mercury spacecraft.

The profits from the concert were used to launch The Mercury Phoenix Trust AIDS charity organisation.