[WoofDog123]

"It was unclear how Pluto's demotion might affect the mission of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which earlier this year began a 9 1/2-year journey to the oddball object to unearth more of its secrets."

moronic statement. it is on its way and will do the studies it was sent to do. i seriously doubt the course it is on allows any modification, even if it is capable of it.

[RightWhale]

The New Horizons mission statement needs rewritten. It is no longer headed to the outermost planet.

[foreverfree]

bump

[mwyounce]

"It was unclear how Pluto's demotion might affect the mission of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which earlier this year began a 9 1/2-year journey to the oddball object to unearth more of its secrets."

It's not going to unEARTH anything! It will have to "... unpluto more of its secrets"! :-)