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Pluto-Bound Probe Tweaks Its Trajectory


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New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto

Artists concept of the New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto.

Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft fine-tuned its path toward Pluto on Tuesday, firing its rocket thrusters for 93 seconds to aim for a fleeting flyby of the distant dwarf planet July 14.

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