[FPSPACE] Universe Today Podcast: There Goes New Horizons

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Universe Today Podcast: There Goes New Horizons

Summary - (Thu, 09 Feb 2006) Take a look through any book on our Solar 
System, and you'll see beautiful photographs of every planet - except one. 
Eight of our nine planets have been visited up close by a spacecraft, and 
we've got the breathtaking photos to prove it. Pluto's the last holdout, 
revealing just a few fuzzy pixels in even the most powerful ground and 
space-based telescopes.

But with the launch of New Horizons in January, bound to arrive at Pluto in 
9 years, we're one step closer to completing our planetary collection - and 
answering some big scientific questions about the nature of objects in the 
Kuiper Belt.

Alan Stern is the Executive Director of the Space Science and Engineering 
Division, at the Southwest Research Institute. He's New Horizon's Principal 
Investigator.

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