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Knock on wood
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 5:07
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Nine and a half years after leaving Earth, NASA’s New Horizons piano-sized probe soared past Pluto Tuesday (July 14), carrying out a historic flyby of the dwarf planet. The spacecraft was scheduled to go by Pluto at a distance of just 7,750 miles at 7:49 a.m. EDT (1149 GMT), but its call home confirming it made it through the encounter will not be received on Earth until 8:53 p.m. As New Horizons’ principal investigator Alan Stern advised his mission control and science teams, “knock on wood.”
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