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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by privong on Thursday July 23, 2015 @12:52PM (#9936952)
> Now maybe you can do that with Pluto using some far-off star for reference, not sure.

It has been done for Pluto, first in 1988, with an occultation of a background star[0].

[0] http://www.space.com/29885-pluto-atmosphere-to-be-revealed-b...

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by goodcanadian on Thursday July 23, 2015 @12:59PM (#9936999)
And most recently with SOFIA at the end of June:

https://sofia.usra.edu/News/news_2015/06_29_15/index.html

This will help tie in past and future occultation observations to the New Horizons data.

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