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New Horizons probe should have flown by Pluto by now (knock on wood) [i]By the time you read this, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft should be somewhere beyond Pluto, having completed a historic first flyby of the dwarf planet. That is, if it survived the encounter. Knock on wood. The piano-sized probe, which was launched to the dwarf planet nine and a half years ago in 2006, was scheduled to make its closest approach to the dwarf planet at 7:49 a.m. EDT (1149 GMT) on Tuesday (July 14). Operating on its own, because New Horizons is traveling extremely fast — 30,800 mph (49,600 kph) — and it takes four hours and 25 minutes for a signal to stretch across the 3 billion miles (5 billion km) between Earth and Pluto, the spacecraft's fate won't be known until 8:53 p.m. EDT (0053 GMT) when its call home is expected to arrive.[/i]
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