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To: SunkenCiv

Here’s an interesting little bit of news. New Horizons in in the homestretch and is now within 10 AU of Pluto.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/20120210.php


3 posted on 02/11/2012 5:55:44 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: cripplecreek
Here’s an interesting little bit of news. New Horizons in in the homestretch and is now within 10 AU of Pluto.

... and from the back seat for the last 100 million miles it's been, "Are we there yet?".

4 posted on 02/11/2012 6:06:12 PM PST by 6SJ7 (Meh.)
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To: cripplecreek

Thanks cc! It was a long slow trip just getting the thing finished and launched. At one time the (Bill and Melinda) Gates Foundation was pitched a proposal to pay to finish the job, I don’t think that it turned out that way. :’)


16 posted on 02/12/2012 7:20:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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