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Re:Cassini Celebrates a Decade in Orbit Around Saturn by bashinator on Monday June 30, 2014 @03:07PM (#7966932)
New Horizons will be doing a close flyby of the Pluto/Charon system next year - that should be pretty good.
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Re:Cassini Celebrates a Decade in Orbit Around Saturn by mturmon on Monday June 30, 2014 @11:56PM (#7969105)
Yes. I was reading (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.

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