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A recent article by J.J. Rawal (Nehru Planetarium, Bombay, India) published
in the October(?), 1986 issue of 'Earth, Moon, and Planets', mathematically 
suggests the possibility of a moon for Mercury.  Rawal bases his 
calculations on the eccentricity of the planet's orbit, and has indicated
an orbital altitude of 225,000-252,700 km.  Rawal is using as the basis for
his calculations formulas drived by Innanan (1979) for a moon-planet-Sun
system, which was derived from original work by King (1962) for a star-
cluster-galaxy system.  

I'm not an astronomer so all this is fundamentally bizarre to me, I was not
aware that there was even a question as to the possibility of such a
satellite, have any of the net astronomers any additional info on this 
topic?

--robert--

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Cold hearted orb that rules the night
That steals the color from our sight
Red is gray and yellow is white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion.

-Moody Blues