New Horizons, Pluto, and the Age of the Solar System

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Today, more than nine years after its launch, the New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to make its closest approach to the dwarf planet Pluto. This will make New Horizons the first space probe to examine Pluto and its moons up close during this historic flyby. A NASA press release states, “A close-up look at these worlds from a spacecraft promises to tell an incredible story about the origins and outskirts of our solar system.” But what is the real story?

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