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Finally, in a month and a half, New Horizons will arrive at Pluto. Of course, Pluto is only a dwarf planet now, but it still seems to have some important historical significance in Human planetary exploration. I'll keep posting updates to this thread until rendezvous time. Who would have thought you could get so excited about events happening more than 4 billion kilometres away?
Unfortunately I'll be at a camp from July 5 to 10, but hopefully I'll be able to have internet access to keep up with the final approach. The actual rendezvous happens on July 14. Meanwhile, New Horizons scans for undiscovered moons and even rings. Hopefully it won't hit anything, but most planetary probes haven't. An impact at its current speed would be disastrous.
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Finally, in a month and a half, New Horizons will arrive at Pluto. Of course, Pluto is only a dwarf planet now, but it still seems to have some important historical significance in Human planetary exploration. I'll keep posting updates to this thread until rendezvous time. Who would have thought you could get so excited about events happening more than 4 billion kilometres away?
Unfortunately I'll be at a camp from July 5 to 10, but hopefully I'll be able to have internet access to keep up with the final approach. The actual rendezvous happens on July 14. Meanwhile, New Horizons scans for undiscovered moons and even rings. Hopefully it won't hit anything, but most planetary probes haven't. An impact at its current speed would be disastrous.