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New Horizons approached Pluto
New Horizons approached Pluto at a distance of 12,500 kilometers. For comparison, satellites in geostationary orbit "hang" over the Earth at a distance of 36,000 kilometers, which is almost 3 times farther
The apparatus has spent 9.5 years in transit and flew about 5 billion kilometers. At such a scale of travel, the accuracy of the "hit" is amazing.
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