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New Horizons Time Capsule
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post Oct 3 2013, 05:45 PM
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Alan Stern
post Oct 12 2013, 10:43 PM
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2014, the last year Pluto remains unknown. Enjoy it while you can.
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post Oct 14 2013, 12:56 AM
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QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Oct 12 2013, 02:43 PM) *
2014, the last year Pluto remains unknown. Enjoy it while you can.


I prefer that your mission team brings this intriguing world out into the limelight! smile.gif

And the New Horizons Message Initiative is a way to use the spacecraft as a time capsule...nothing more, nothing less. (As if future explorers will stumble upon the DVD that's aboard IKAROS or the marker that Hayabusa left behind on asteroid Itokawa a few years back...)


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