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Nasa spacecraft crosses Neptune's orbit in record time on trip to the outer edges of solar system
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 18:24
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Next stop Pluto
The piano-sized spacecraft, which launched in January 2006, reached Neptune’s orbit in just eight years and eight months.
That beats the previous time to travel this distance of nearly 2.75 billion miles (4.4 billion km) taken by Voyager 2 by nearly four years.
And in a rather fitting tribute to its predecessor, the milestone comes on the 25th anniversary of Voyager 2’s encounter with Neptune on 25 August 1989 …. http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2014/08/nasa-spacecraft-crosses-neptunes-orbit.html
