Of course, when New Horizons was launched, Pluto was a FULL Planet.
Good thing NH was in the right spot to tell Pluto the sad news.
By the headline I though the mission was to honor Muslims in some way to Obozo’s liking.
NASA has become a half-asteroid operation. ;-)
More buried news delivered late on a Friday. Otherwise, it might dominate the Sunday talk shows [sarc].
In addition to the extension of the New Horizons mission, NASA determined that the Dawn spacecraft should remain at the dwarf planet Ceres, rather than changing course to the main belt asteroid Adeona.
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Scientists and engineers have done a lot of patches to keep Dawn productive after multiple equipment failures.
Wonder what lie they will make up around this probe ... almost everything NASA does in space is one layer of some lie or another: from images made with obsolete cameras based on yesterday’s tech to compressed and degraded public images ... nothing they say or do is what it seems ... there is always another layer which gets revealed quietly years or decades later.
Ancient Alien theorist belive