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what's up for October this month we have

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a trip and a treat one is in the morning

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sky and one is in the evening sky hello

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and welcome I'm Jane Houston Jones at

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in

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Pasadena California early risers will be

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able to see a tricky target this month

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it's mercury mercury is just one and a

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half times the size of our own moon and

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in early October NASA's messenger

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spacecraft flies past mercury for the

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second time this year and in 2011

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messenger will be the first spacecraft

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to actually orbit mercury look in the

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eastern sky 30 minutes before the Sun

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rises from the 16th of the month on

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mercury can be seen about 20 degrees

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above the horizon and it will be easier

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to see towards the end of the month with

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the unaided eye

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mercury looks like a star and through a

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telescope it'll look like a tiny version

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of the first quarter moon on the 16th

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and like a tiny waxing gibbous moon on

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the 22nd Halloween is a great time to

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look up in the night sky from your own

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neighborhoods and this year we have more

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than one treat to offer both venus and

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jupiter are easy to see the slender

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crescent moon joins the two planets a

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half hour after sunset the European

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Space Agency's Venus Express is orbiting

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Venus right now and many NASA spacecraft

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including Galileo and Cassini have used

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the planet's gravitational pull to get