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SteveInCO posted an update 10 years, 11 months ago
Congrats, Human Race, on either completing the Grand Tour of the planets, or starting on exploring the Kuiper Belt, depending on whether you think Pluto should have remained a planet or noty.
Quite a feat regardless of your view. Looking forward to what might be found in the Kuiper Belt. Hopefully, we will be able to use the interest to up the funding of NASA.
Much has been made of the fact that over the past fifty years, we’ve explored all of the “classical” planets. That just happens to cover my lifespan neatly. When I was a kid, Pluto was a white dot on a star photograph, with an arrow pointing to it (and another dot, on a photo immediately to the right). It has been decades (1989) since we got our first good look at a planet. Now I look at these and have to remind myself, this is REALLY Pluto, not some “artist’s conception,” that we REALLY have some idea what’s there now, even if we didn’t a mere month ago.