New Horizons now less than 6 Au from Pluto
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The New Horizons space craft as of 13:00 hrs UTC yesterday is now within 6 AU of its next target - Pluto. While this is still a long way yet from Pluto, it is the closest spacecraft to Pluto. Closest approach is now some 752 days away on 14 July 2015.There are very interesting articles on the investigation work the New Horizons team has done to plan the path of New Horizons through the Plutonian system:
- http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/overview/piPerspective.php
- http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/20130614.php
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