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Einstein's Alcove
New Horizons Pluto probe nearing its target
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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 932893" data-attributes="member: 175144"><p>And even though Pluto can be seen through dead ahead, New Horizons may still miss its target.</p><p></p><p><em>Because astronomers <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/pluto-s-long-strange-history-in-pictures-1.16910" target="_blank">discovered the dwarf planet in 1930</a>, they have seen only part of its 248-year path around the Sun, and they don’t know exactly where Pluto is. And New Horizons is so far from Earth that it takes 9 hours to send and receive a signal, making the spacecraft hard to direct in real time.</em></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/pluto-bound-probe-faces-its-toughest-task-finding-pluto-1.17811" target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/news/pluto-bound-probe-faces-its-toughest-task-finding-pluto-1.17811</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 932893, member: 175144"] And even though Pluto can be seen through dead ahead, New Horizons may still miss its target. [I]Because astronomers [URL='http://www.nature.com/news/pluto-s-long-strange-history-in-pictures-1.16910']discovered the dwarf planet in 1930[/URL], they have seen only part of its 248-year path around the Sun, and they don’t know exactly where Pluto is. And New Horizons is so far from Earth that it takes 9 hours to send and receive a signal, making the spacecraft hard to direct in real time.[/I] [url]http://www.nature.com/news/pluto-bound-probe-faces-its-toughest-task-finding-pluto-1.17811[/url] [/QUOTE]
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