Coming in 2015: New Horizons Meets Pluto
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NASA's New Horizons mission will help us understand worlds at the planetary frontier by making the first reconnaissance of Pluto and by venturing deeper into the distant, mysterious Kuiper Belt -- a relic of solar system formation.
The New Horizons spacecraft -- built and operated at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland -- launched on Jan. 19, 2006. It swung past Jupiter for a gravity boost in February 2007, and will fly through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. The countdown is on . . .
For more on the mission, visit http://pluto.jhuapl.edu
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Happy Birthday to Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the demoted planet.
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