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The New Horizons Mission to Pluto-Charon and the Kuiper Belt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

G. Leonard Tyler ,
S. Alan Stern  and
Harold A. Weaver
G. Leonard Tyler
Affiliation:
Stanford University, Packard 331, 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-9515, USA, len.tyler@stanford.edu
S. Alan Stern
Affiliation:
Southwest Research Institute, Suite 400, 1050 Walnut Street, Boulder CO 80302, USA, astern@swn.edu
Harold A. Weaver
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723-6099, USA, hal.weaver@jhuapl.edu

Abstract

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The New Horizons Mission to Pluto-Charon and the Kuiper Belt is under development for launch in 2006. The experiment complement of eight sensors addresses fundamental issues of density, composition, albedo, geology, and atmospheric state, chemistry, and escape.

Type
II. Special Scientific Sessions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 13 , 2005 , pp. 910 - 911
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2005

References

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