[Vaquero]

Shame it would has been a much bigger undertaking to supply the craft with enough fuel to allow New Horizons to slow itself into orbit....the craft may pick up speed as it slingshots around Pluto and out into Intersteller space.

[martin_fierro]

Yeah, I wish I could’ve hung around out there for a few years, like Cassini at Saturn.

[Drew68]

Shame it would has been a much bigger undertaking to supply the craft with enough fuel to allow New Horizons to slow itself into orbit....the craft may pick up speed as it slingshots around Pluto and out into Intersteller space.

Yep. I have a feeling that the type of clear, detailed photos that other probes have given us of Jupiter, Saturn and their moons isn't going to happen with Pluto. The fly-by is going to be quick, only about 2 hours, and then off to who knows where. After Pluto, the next Transneptunians that New Horizons might encounter are rocks only a few dozen miles across and a billion miles away,