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New Horizons is a NASA robotic spacecraft mission currently en route to the dwarf planet Pluto. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix, and Hydra. NASA may also approve flybys of one or more other Kuiper belt objects. New Horizons was launched on January 19, 2006 directly into an Earth-and-solar-escape trajectory. It had an Earth-relative velocity of about 16.26 km/s (58,536 km/h; 36,373 mph) after its last engine shut down. Thus, it left Earth at the fastest launch speed ever recorded for a man-made object. It flew by Jupiter on February 28, 2007 at 5:43:40 UTC and Saturn's orbit on June 8, 2008 at 10:00 UTC. It will arrive at Pluto on July 14, 2015 and then continue into the Kuiper belt. From Wikipedia under the
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Q. If possible date and month as well? Asked by thespringliker303 - Mon Apr 19 11:17:57 2010 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments A. The closests approach to Pluto is 14 July, 2015. Answered by Gary B - Mon Apr 19 11:26:37 2010 From Yahoo Answer Search: "New Horizons" |
