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Mark Your Calendars: In A Year, We'll Arrive At Pluto

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Planetary scientist Alan Stern is counting down the days — just 365 of them now. He’s spent the past 8 1/2 years waiting for the New Horizons spacecraft to make a close encounter with Pluto. Next year, on July 14, the spacecraft will reach its destination.

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Source: NPR Science – ingested into KQED

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