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July 10, 2015

Approaching Pluto

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Clyde Tombaugh's ashes on New Horizons

The American spacecraft, New Horizons, launched almost a decade ago, is as of this Earth morning,
some two billion miles away on the other side of our Sun. It is approaching Pluto at an extraordinary speed, on a trajectory that will this coming Tuesday pass over the planet by less than eight thousand miles, before spinning off farther into the Kuiper belt. Aboard, it has equipment including cameras to gather more than one thousand times the data Mariner IV could assimilate during the first planetary fly-past, of Mars fifty years ago.... Clyde Tombaugh Visiting Pluto : Essays in Idleness

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 10, 2015 2:02 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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