Space Probe Gets Halfway to Pluto in Record Time
SOURCE: DIGG • 2009-12-30
TOPICS:
Planetary Science • New Horizons • Spaceflight • Pluto • Charon • Planet • Discovery And Exploration Of The Solar System • Iau Definition Of Planet • Environment
[116 diggs @ Space] The fastest man-made object ever built, the Pluto-bound New Horizons probe, is now closer to the former planet than Earth, just a little under four years.
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