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Letter: For the record

Published 25 March 2015

• Colossus was used to crack Nazi Germany’s codes, but not Enigma (14 March, p 36), which was blown apart by the bombe machine at Bletchley Park.

• While NASA’s probe Dawn is the first to orbit two different worlds (7 March, p 6), earlier spacecraft have visited multiple planets.

Issue no. 3014 published 28 March 2015

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