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breitling on July 15, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: New Horizons phones home

I don't follow...have we not visited all the planets? Perhaps he means we have flown past them all?

mercurialshark on July 15, 2015 [–]

Pluto = dwarf planet, so it's irrelevant to statement. Also, we certainly haven't visited all dwarf planets.

electic on July 15, 2015 | [–]

The probe was launched before Pluto was re-classified as a dwarf planet. Either way, this is an immense achievement in both will and engineering.

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