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Pluto spacecraft crosses halfway mark

By T.K. Randall
December 30, 2009 · Comment icon  comments

Image Credit: NASA
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the fastest manmade object ever built, taking only a year to move beyond Jupiter following its launch. Almost four years on it has now reached the halfway point to Pluto and is due to arrive in 2015.
It's been nothing less than the fastest ever sprint across the solar system. The half-ton NASA New Horizons probe -- the fasted manmade object ever built -- today crosses the halfway mark on its nearly decade-long odyssey to the dwarf planet Pluto.


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