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Word from Pluto... (Original Post)
LunaSea
Jul 2015
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. Yup! 30,000+ mph is real(ly) slow?
And nobody would dump the King of the Kuiper belt, which is why we spent over a billion bucks and over a decade to drive by, sadly too fast.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)2. Slow?
That thing is moving 36,000 miles per hour.
Pluto should feel lucky. The other big Kuiper belt objects (or "planets", if we have to call them that) like Eris probably won't get a visit from Earth any time soon.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)3. Worse,...we snapped pictures too.
jomin41
(559 posts)4. Thanks for the chuckle!
Baclava
(12,047 posts)5. In 150 years Eris will be back in the neighborhood and knock that squirt down another notch
Gothmog
(145,965 posts)6. Great meme