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New Horizons Becomes Farthest Humanity Has Visited Pluto
After a nearly decadelong journey New Horizons sped past Pluto at 7 49 a m EDT eclipsing previous records The craft flew by at 30800 mph about 7800 miles from Pluto Its closest approach was slightly earlier than planned and NASA officials expect a small image set to follow The mission managed by Johns Hopkins APL cost 700 million and carried science payloads to map Pluto and its moons with estimates of Pluto a larger radius and a dust risk of 1 in 10000 to 1 in 1000000 per models
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New Horizons
Pluto
Humanity
NASA
Alan Stern
Kuiper Belt
Alice Bowman
Bowman
Earth
Jupiter
Ben Montet
Caltech
Solar System
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Maryland
International Astronomical Union
Stern
Lab Ec EN
Ee Cnc
Humanit
New Horizons Science
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
APL
Laurel
Bill Ingalls