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New Horizons will be doing a close flyby of the Pluto/Charon system next year - that should be pretty good.
by bashinator 12y ago
New Horizons will be doing a close flyby of the Pluto/Charon system next year - that should be pretty good.
- mturmon 12y agoYes. I was reading (http://news.sciencemag.org/space/2014/06/hubble-telescope-look-follow-target-pluto-bound-probe http://news.sciencemag.org/space/2014/06/hubble-telescope-lo...) that they got a bunch of Hubble time to look for Kuiper Belt Objects to target after they swing by Pluto. They need to know now so they can get the gravity assist correct. Given the lack of complete knowledge about the mass distribution of Pluto-Charon system, that must be a hell of a hard problem.