New Horizons Probe’s Long Route To Pluto

Credit: NASA
Today scientists believe Pluto is the largest object in the Kuiper Belt, a distant zone of primordial objects left over from the formation of the Solar System more than 4 billion years ago. New Horizons will pass near Pluto and its five known moons on July 14, and then plunge deeper into that little...

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