If Pluto weren’t in orbit around the sun, we wouldn’t have been able to send a spacecraft there with such precision.
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My understanding is that there have been course corrections quite a few times during the 9 year trip to pluto.
I did not make the rules about having to prove an orbit prior to being called a planet, you know.
It is what it is.
My understanding is that there have been course corrections quite a few times during the 9 year trip to pluto.
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The operative word being few, and to be more accurate, very small corrections. If Pluto weren’t in orbit around the sun, there wouldn’t be enough fuel for the corrections.