| archmage | Date: Tuesday, 06-September-2011, 8:50 PM | Message # 1 |
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| (PhysOrg.com) -- At this very moment one of the fastest spacecraft ever launched -- NASA's New Horizons -- is hurtling through the void at nearly one million miles per day. Launched in 2006, it has been in flight longer than some missions last, and still has four more years of travel to go.
New Horizons headed for the lonely world of Pluto on the outer edge of the solar system.
Although astronomers now call Pluto a dwarf planet, "it's actually a large place, about 5,000 miles around at the equator," says Alan Stern, principal investigator for the mission. "And it's never been explored."
Indeed, no spacecraft has ever visited Pluto or any dwarf planet.
Full article/source - http://www.physorg.com/news....url
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