From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:43:13 -0500, Tony Williams  wrote:

> Geo wrote:
>> "Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>> news:6mv602d4plj80f4a3ehrkskvjc124l54ir{at}4ax.com...
>>
>>>> The voyager probes didn't go near as fast as the pluto probe either.
>>>> ...
>>> That's no surprise.  When you've nowhere to go, there's no sense in
>>> hurrying.
>>  Voyager had lots of places to go, it just had a very tight schedule to
>> follow. This probe is just going to shoot past pluto and then it's on
>> to I
>> don't know where.
>
> The plan as I understand it is to fly by Pluto, then aim for whatever
> large objects they can find in the Kuiper belt. So they don't know where
> yet, but have enough fuel left to aim for anything that looks
> interesting. Not a bad idea, being as we're likely to discover new
> objects while the probe is en route.
>

It's going to have to be whatever objects are near enough in the Kuiper
Belt to see on the way out of the solar system as the velocity can't be
killed to enter a solar orbit within the Belt.

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Gary Wiltshire

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