The New Horizons mission to Pluto (and beyond)
Barrie W. Jones is an astronomer whose new book, Pluto: Sentinel of the Outer Solar System, deals with the discovery and exploration of planetoid Pluto. In this excerpt, he describes New Horizons, a spacecraft that will visit Pluto in 2015. We would clearly learn a lot more about Pluto, its three satellites, the E-K belt,…
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Barrie W. Jones