1. After traveling for almost 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to dwarf-planet Pluto on Tuesday, July 14, 2015, beaming back a photo with our closest look yet at what used to be the 9th planet in our solar system.
  3. "Pluto is much more than something that is not a planet. It’s a reminder that there are many worlds out there beyond our own — that the sky isn’t the limit at all." — New Horizons science team member Bonnie Buratti
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    One of my first memories as a child in the 1950s was a discussion I had with my brother in our family house in Bethlehem, Pa. We had heard in school about a planet called Pluto. It was the farthest, coldest and darkest thing a child could imagine. We
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  8. Google got in on the excitement, changing its logo to a doodle honoring Pluto.
  10. In a video message posted to Facebook, Stephen Hawking congratulates NASA and the New Horizons team "for their historic flyby of Pluto. The culmination of a decade long mission, I can't wait to see what new information the New Horizons spacecraft will reveal about our distant relative."
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  12. Before New Horizons, the Hubble Space Telescope provided our closest look at Pluto. The Hubble image is part of a set taken between 2002 and 2003.
  17. Some think that Pluto's 'heart' closely matches the Disney character of the same name.
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