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15-07-2015, 12:04 PM
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Fasten your seat belts, space cadets: We’re officially in the final countdown to NASA’s 3-billion-mile journey to Pluto.
Pluto was actually still a planet when the space agency launched the mission in early 2006. (In case you’ve been living in a crater for the past nine years, Pluto was unceremoniously demoted due to its size that same summer. It’s now considered a “dwarf planet” — which I’m assured by our HR department is a perfectly acceptable term to use — or a “plutoid,” if you’re feeling politically correct.)
Today, the agency’s unmanned New Horizons spacecraft is in a galaxy far, far away — or, at least, at the edge of our solar system. Earlier this morning it brushed up against the former planet’s private space, coming within 8,000 miles of the dwarf — err, plutoid. While we won’t get the full scope of NASA’s findings for a while, details about the enigmatic Pluto are slowly but surely trickling in.
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https://www.yahoo.com/tech/7-fascinating-facts-we-just-learned-about-pluto-124020995919.html
Fascinating!:flutter:
Fasten your seat belts, space cadets: We’re officially in the final countdown to NASA’s 3-billion-mile journey to Pluto.
Pluto was actually still a planet when the space agency launched the mission in early 2006. (In case you’ve been living in a crater for the past nine years, Pluto was unceremoniously demoted due to its size that same summer. It’s now considered a “dwarf planet” — which I’m assured by our HR department is a perfectly acceptable term to use — or a “plutoid,” if you’re feeling politically correct.)
Today, the agency’s unmanned New Horizons spacecraft is in a galaxy far, far away — or, at least, at the edge of our solar system. Earlier this morning it brushed up against the former planet’s private space, coming within 8,000 miles of the dwarf — err, plutoid. While we won’t get the full scope of NASA’s findings for a while, details about the enigmatic Pluto are slowly but surely trickling in.
https://s.yimg.com/cd/resizer/2.0/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w540/4bd52c56eb0c97d4eeb21d8c5e748f5ed76a7064.jpg
https://s.yimg.com/cd/resizer/2.0/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w540/14e5ce38d9e8a9da3d1782e0c1d64bd6503f8ea6.jpg
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/7-fascinating-facts-we-just-learned-about-pluto-124020995919.html
Fascinating!:flutter: