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Tuesday, January 17, 2006
NASA taking fast track to PlutoNew Horizons will reach a speed of about 47,000 miles per hour during its 10-year trip to Pluto. According to The Physics Factbook, a bullet from a large-caliber rifle travels at about 1,500 meters or 5,000 feet per second -- about 3,400 miles per hour.
It took Apollo 11 three days to reach the moon in 1969. New Horizons will fly by it about nine hours after launch and reach Jupiter in a little more than a year, the space agency said.
If all goes as planned, it will then execute a "gravity assist" maneuver, slingshotting around Jupiter to pick up speed.
The maneuver will increase New Horizons' speed to 21 kilometers per second -- 47,000 miles per hour, NASA said.
From there it will travel nine more years in more or less a straight line to Pluto.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/01/17/pluto.mission/index.html
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There is a lot of controversy surrounding this launch with the chance of plutonium covering southern florida but all the impact assessments show its a pretty low chance. This is cool and I think the benifits outweight the risks. We are talking about sending a probe to Pluto and passing thru the Kuiper Belt. There is debris in this belt believed to have come from the origin of the solar system and along with the latest comet dust mission, all the pieces are coming together. Forget trips to Yellowstone, within our lifetime it will be trips to Neptune and its surrounding moons.
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Launch was scrubbed for today, the winds were too high. It is back on for tomorrow at 1:16pm
Posted by mardenhill 1/17/2006 02:23:00 PM
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