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Japan probe overshoots Venus, heads toward sun

11:21am GMT, Wednesday, 8 December 2010

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese probe to Venus failed to reach orbit Wednesday and was captured by the sun’s gravitational pull in a setback to Japan’s shoestring space program, which will have to wait another six years to try again….
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