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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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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