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To: Moonman62

If Pluto weren’t in orbit around the sun, we wouldn’t have been able to send a spacecraft there with such precision.

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My understanding is that there have been course corrections quite a few times during the 9 year trip to pluto.

I did not make the rules about having to prove an orbit prior to being called a planet, you know.

It is what it is.


46 posted on 07/14/2015 7:13:27 AM PDT by dmz
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To: dmz

My understanding is that there have been course corrections quite a few times during the 9 year trip to pluto.

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The operative word being few, and to be more accurate, very small corrections. If Pluto weren’t in orbit around the sun, there wouldn’t be enough fuel for the corrections.


47 posted on 07/14/2015 7:20:15 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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