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My feature profiling scientists on the New Horizons mission that flew past Pluto and is now preparing to go past another Kuiper Belt object

Link March 4, 2017 Ron Cowen

My feature profiling scientists on the New Horizons mission that flew past Pluto and is now preparing to go past another Kuiper Belt object

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Pluto’s four tiny outer moons are spinning like crazy

November 10, 2015 Ron Cowen

Pluto’s four tiny outer moons are spinning like crazy.

Here’s a video of the spinning, courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute:

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Frigid Pluto may have at least two ice-eruption volcanoes!

Link November 9, 2015 Ron Cowen

Frigid Pluto may have at least two ice-eruption volcanoes!

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