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Old 01-20-2006, 07:24 AM   #18
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Hummm, Part 2.

After it's scorch-by of Jupiter next year our intrepid little probe will be cruising at a comfortable 47,000 mph in order to reach Pluto before all the mission specialists reach the age of forced retirement.

I guess that implies we won't be seeing a nice insertion orbit around Pluto. It's going to be a buzz-by at 47,000 mph. Hope they put a fast camera on that probe.

Would any of you math whizzes want to ballpark a figure on when the probe will overtake Voyager-1 and claim the title of farthest hunk-o-junk ever sent from earth?

Voyager 1 is going 16.49 km/s and has already left the building...
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