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NASA's Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=49503

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The gallery
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/images/index.html
 
I'm a bit surprised that the Plutonians didn't construct a large geographical message stating "I got your dwarf planet right here bitch!"

Missed opportunity. Or perhaps they're all Canadian ex-pats that are just too polite for such.

Either way, sure looks like a planet to me. Haters gonna hate.
 
Victoria's 'Goodbye, Pluto' Party in August of '06 was one of the best nights of my life, so its losing its planetary status was well worth it.
 
OGG said:
I'm a bit surprised that the Plutonians didn't construct a large geographical message stating "I got your dwarf planet right here bitch!"

Missed opportunity. Or perhaps they're all Canadian ex-pats that are just too polite for such.

Either way, sure looks like a planet to me. Haters gonna hate.
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Pluto dropped out of planetary status in the solar system so that it could become the fifth Beatle.
 
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So was it a single flyby or is the probe going to somehow get into an orbit around pluto? i know i could look this up but i'm a busy man. this nose won't pick itself.

EDIT: Ok, did some digging. The probe is going way too fast to park in orbit around Pluto, so it's mission is to keep going and hopefully find other Kupier Belt objects. It has extra fuel for altering it's current trajectory. I think the closest candidate object is a billion km beyond Pluto, or about 3 years out according to the link below!

I'm astonished that New Horizons made a Jupiter flyby just a little over a year after launch! Crazy times we live in.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/The-Path-to-Pluto/Mission-Timeline.php

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