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A comment on BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury.

Re:BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury by pietroppeter on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:36AM (#28744122)
> BepiColombo is named after Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo (1920–1984), a scientist, mathematician and engineer at the University of Padua, Italy, who first proposed the interplanetary gravity assist manoeuvre used by the 1974 Mariner 10 mission, a technique now used frequently by planetary probes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BepiColombo

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Re:BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury by davidw on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:31PM (#28749859)
I saw that name and I thought "that's a name from the Veneto".

The history of that university is pretty amazing. I can't recommend the tour enough, if people go through Padova. It's a nice change from all the churches, castles and villas that you see elsewhere in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Padua

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Re:BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury by ddevault on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:05AM (#28744626)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BepiColombo
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