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Pluto Flyby by New Horizons Set for Tuesday
NASA’s New Horizons will skim Pluto on Tuesday morning at 7:49 a.m. EDT, passing 7,767 miles from Pluto and 17,931 miles from Charon. The mission, built by Johns Hopkins APL in Laurel, aims to deliver unprecedented data from a distant world, marking a major planetary reveal and the last such exploration for a long time.
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