From: hud@pobox.com   
      
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   JUSTIN PENNELLA <1000rronweasley@verizon.net> wrote:   
   >Why only do a fly-by with the New Horizons spacecraft?  I know the   
   >capabilities of this spacecraft are light years beyond the Voyagers and   
   >Pioneers (in terms of fly-bys), but why not just go ahead and put the craft   
   >into orbit around Pluto for long term study?   
      
   Johns Hopkins Magazine -- Mission: Pluto   
      
      
     He and a team of scientists that included APL's Andy Cheng planned the   
     basic science. New Horizons would be a fly-by reconnaissance mission;   
     to go into orbit around the planet, the speeding spacecraft would have   
     to slam on the brakes so hard it would need a thousand times more fuel   
     for thrusters than it could carry.   
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