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  Journey Begins For NASA's New Horizons Probe; APL-Built Pluto Mission Spacecraft Shipped To NASA Goddard For Pre-Launch Tests

  June 14, 2005 — The first spacecraft designed to study Pluto took the first steps on a long journey when it was shipped to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for its next round of pre-launch ... > full story
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  NASA Selects New Frontiers Mission Concept Study

  June 2, 2005 — NASA has announced that a mission to fly to Jupiter will proceed to a preliminary design phase. The mission is called Juno, and it is the second in NASA's New Frontiers ... > full story
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  Scientists Discover Pluto Kin Is A Member Of Saturn Family

  May 7, 2005 — Saturn's battered little moon Phoebe is an interloper to the Saturn system from the deep outer solar system, scientists have concluded. Phoebe was left behind from the solar nebula, the cloud of ... > full story
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  Pluto-Charon Origin May Mirror That Of Earth And Its Moon

  February 14, 2005 — The evolution of Kuiper Belt objects, Pluto and its lone moon Charon may have something in common with Earth and our single Moon: a giant impact in the distant ... > full story
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  Scientists Announce Smallest Extra-Solar Planet Yet Discovered And Find Outer Limits Of The Pulsar Planetary System

  February 11, 2005 — Penn State's Alex Wolszczan, the discoverer in 1992 of the first planets ever found outside our solar system, now has discovered with Caltech's Maciej Konacki the smallest planet yet ... > full story
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  Did Our Sun Capture Alien Worlds? Close Encounter May Explain Some Objects Beyond Neptune

  December 8, 2004 — Computer simulations show a close encounter with a passing star about 4 billion years ago may have given our solar system its abrupt edge and put small, alien worlds into distant orbits around our ... > full story
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  Good News For Pluto: KBOs May Be Smaller Than Thought

  November 16, 2004 — Pluto's status as our solar system's ninth planet may be safe if a recently discovered Kuiper Belt Object is a typical "KBO" and not just an oddball. Astronomers have new evidence ... > full story
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  Cassini Opens A Cosmic Time Capsule

  June 25, 2004 — Like a woolly mammoth trapped in Arctic ice, Saturn's small moon Phoebe may be a frozen artifact of a bygone era, some four billion years ago. The finding is suggested by new data from the ... > full story
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  Cassini Makes Close Observations Of Phoebe

  June 14, 2004 — With its flyby of Phoebe, the Cassini spacecraft has completed the first satellite flyby in its four-year tour of the Saturn ... > full story
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  Sedna Mystery Deepens With Hubble Images Of Farthest Planetoid

  April 15, 2004 — Astronomers studying 35 NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of the solar system's farthest known object, unofficially named Sedna, are surprised the object does not appear to have a ... > full story

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