From: Tony Williams 

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.

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Tony

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