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   Scott Miller to Big John   
   Re: Photos from Pluto   
   19 Jan 06 00:31:43   
   
   From: jsfmiller@netzero.net   
      
   Big John wrote:   
   > A country boy with an interest in space is wondering how long will it   
   > take photos to get back to Earth from "New Horizons", once it arrives in   
   > the Pluto neighborhood? I've read a lot of stuff about the flight, but   
   > haven't seen that.   
   >   
   > TIA   
   >   
   > BJ   
      
   Well, at a rough distance of about 40x farther from the Sun than we are,   
   and we are about 8 lightminutes from the Sun, the implication would be   
   40 x 8 or 320 minutes, rounding off quite substantially.  But it is   
   ballparkish.   
      
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