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Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: New Horizons - mission to Pluto and the Kupier belt

An Unusual Crater on Pluto Might be a Supervolcano

https://www.universetoday.com/163836/an … ervolcano/

Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: New Horizons - mission to Pluto and the Kupier belt

Supervolcano eruption on Pluto hints at hidden ocean beneath the surface
https://www.space.com/new-horizons-plut … face-ocean

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Re: New Horizons - mission to Pluto and the Kupier belt

Constitution Ratified (1788) – 4.8% of Pluto’s orbit
Louisiana Purchase (1803) – 10.9% of Pluto’s orbit
Civil War (1861-1865) – 34.2% of Pluto’s orbit
Birth of Percival Lowell (1885) – 43.9% of Pluto’s orbit
Moon Landing (1969) – 77.8% of Pluto’s orbit
End of the Cold War (1991) – 86.69% of Pluto’s orbit
New Horizons at Pluto (2015) – 96.3% of Pluto’s orbit

'The Entirety of The USA History Happened Within Just One Pluto Orbit'
https://starlust.org/the-entirety-of-th … uto-orbit/

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Re: New Horizons - mission to Pluto and the Kupier belt

Mysterious objects spotted in the outer solar system beyond Pluto

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was launched in 2006 in order to observe the surfaces of outer solar system bodies up close for the first time in our history. The spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of the Pluto system (2015), and later on (2019)  it made a flyby of one of the Kuiper Belt objects, (486958) Arrokoth.

While it was highly difficult to search for solar system objects with multiple background stars, the scientists were able to localize 24 Kuiper Belt objects.

Unfortunately, the Kuiper belt objects discovered until now require too much fuel for New Horizons to flyby, but new ones at greater distances might fall within the available fuel reach of the spacecraft.

In 2020, deeper observations with the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) on the Subaru Telescope began, and, by 2023, 239 Kuiper Belt objects were discovered.

"The most exciting part of the HSC observations was the discovery of 11 objects at distances beyond the known Kuiper Belt,

New Horizons is currently traveling further out, at approximately 60 au from the Sun, hoping to discover many more distant objects.

But still no planet X in sight...