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Originally Posted by Rain Man
An interesting article overall, but the first part is the most interesting. It appears that we can fly by Pluto, but it would be extremely difficult to actually land on it or go into orbit around it. You have to go really fast to get there in under a decade, and Pluto's gravity is so low that you can't use it to capture the spacecraft or even slow it down much. You'd have to take an enormous amount of fuel to slow down, which isn't currently feasible.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...nswered-space/ |
Well I can cross another one off my list of potential places to relocate.
I had narrowed it down to Pluto or Scottsdale.