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2. Pluto - Wikipedia

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   Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume, by a small margin, but is less massive than Eris.

3. Exploration of Pluto - Wikipedia

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   Pluto 350 aimed to send a spacecraft, weighing around 350 kilograms, to Pluto. [11] The spacecraft's minimalistic design was to allow it to travel faster and be more cost-effective, in contrast to most other big-budget projects NASA were developing at the time, such as Galileo and Cassini. Pluto 350, however, would later become controversial ...

4. List of proposed missions to the outer planets - Wikipedia

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   In January 2006, the New Horizons spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41 on a mission to visit Pluto. To accelerate toward its target, the spacecraft used an Earth-and-solar escape trajectory , achieving a speed of approximately 16.26 km/s (10.10 mi/s; 58,500 km/h; 36,400 mph), and later performed a gravity assist ...

5. Webb telescope reveals surprising details of Pluto's ... - AOL

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   It is about half the diameter and an eighth the mass of Pluto, a dwarf planet that resides in a frigid region of the outer Solar System called the Kuiper Belt, beyond the most distant planet Neptune.

6. Hayabusa Terra - Wikipedia

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   Hayabusa Terra / ˌ h aɪ ə ˈ b uː s ə / is a surface feature on the dwarf planet Pluto. It was discovered by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. It is named for Hayabusa, the first spacecraft to successfully return a sample of an asteroid to Earth. The name has been officially approved by the International Astronomical Union on 7 ...

7. New Horizons spacecraft captures first images of Pluto moons

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   NASA launched the New Horizon spacecraft in 2006 to learn more about the icy dwarf planet Pluto. Here are some of the first photos from that mission, taken from between 125 and 115 million miles away.

8. Geography of Pluto - Wikipedia

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   The geography of Pluto refers to the study and mapping of physical features across the dwarf planet Pluto. On 14 July 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft became the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During its brief flyby, New Horizons made detailed geographical measurements and observations of Pluto and its moons .

9. Everything Was New and Pretty Wondrous - The Huffington Post

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   RM: So the spacecraft travels three billion miles to get to Pluto, and you have this very short window of time when it’s going to fly by the planet. And 10 days before that window is due to start, the spacecraft goes silent. AB: That was a terrible feeling. We were sending commands to the main computer on the spacecraft.