In uk.sci.weather on Tue, 3 Aug 2004 at 19:52:59, Col wrote :

According to the news this morning it can reach 800F there.
That's 10 times hotter than a hot summer's day!

I noticed that, too - aargh!

Something else that occurred to me is - WTF will it take 7 years to get
there? Mercury is what - 60m miles away, yet the Cassini mission to
Saturn covered at least 10 times that distance in 7 years.

Is it powered by a Sinclair C5 motor?
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham