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Pluto visited by new Horizons probe.

viridis
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 After 9 years since launch,

After travelling 5 billion miles 

The new Horizons satellite probe has reached pluto and is currently taking mass readings and photographs of the very distant micro planet.

Once considered one of the 9 planets of our solar system, they now teach children of only 8 with pluto dropped from the list in recent years.

On board the new Horizons probe, which is approximately the size of a piano, are the ashes of the very man that discovered pluto in the early 20th century.

How poetic.

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Is that not the composer Holst @viridis?

 

School was a while back grin

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love this story.....5 billion miles is hard to comprehend but not nothing compared to the vastness of the Milky Way and beyond.

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Takes some doing with all the calculations that were involved.

Did we not send a probe to Uranus as well? Seem to recall one being launched a few years back?
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I was so sad when was declassified from a planet. This was always a boyhood hobby of mine and the first thing you learn are the planets in our solar system.The progress at which we are mapping ever expanding universes is quite staggering and it's a subject I will never tire of. I've been following this on the bbc website while I am here.

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Worse thing is @jonsie . I had no idea it had been declassified!

Every day is a school day!
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When you think they can land a probe on a comet it's quite amusing watching the wife try to reverse into a gap big enough to land the Space Shuttle...

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@Anonymous wrote:
Worse thing is @jonsie . I had no idea it had been declassified!

Every day is a school day!

Yeah in 2006,

In fact when new horizons launched, pluto was still classed as a planet.

I guess it was too late to turn around.

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So it's a dwarf planet according to the BBC? Is that BBC journalism or correct?

Surely a dwarf planet is as it says on the tin 'A Planet'
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