Bad Astronomy -
23 Mar 2015 13:15
In a few months, Pluto's gonna get a lot less fuzzy. Right now, the distant world is a scant three pixels across in the camera of the New Horizons space probe. But it's fast approaching; New Horizons recently crossed the distance where it was closer to Pluto than the Earth is to the Sun. Given that Pluto is 40 times farther from the Sun than the Earth is, you can see that the probe is nearing the goal of its mission. Closest approach will be in mid-July, 2015. A bit more than a month before then...
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