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New Horizons passes Pluto — the first close encounter

2015-07-14 · Recorded · space

The source states this happened, and its date is not in the future. The word the source used for it is historical.

Resolved nitrogen glaciers, water-ice mountains and the haze-layered atmosphere of a world known until then as a point of light. Encounter class: flyby.

Source: NASA / JHUAPL · NASA New Horizons mission pages
Standing: This record: partially verified · publisher: partially verified
How it arrived: Editorial — A dated record from the Richseen Atlas editorial corpus, written and cited by a curator. Not captured from anywhere, and not live.
Where: At a canonical Atlas object, placed and checked by a curator.
Subject: MISSION_NEW_HORIZONS · BODY_PLUTO

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Computed celestial events · not an impact-risk statement

Schematic · log-compressed · ranked discs · not an ephemeris — full statement →

Computed — not an impact-risk statement — a close approach is a computed passing distance. Schematic view: distances are log-compressed (to true scale Neptune sits 30× Earth’s distance) and discs are ranked by size, not to scale. Positions computed from JPL mean orbital elements for today — an orientation good to a few degrees, not an ephemeris. Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).

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New Horizons passes Pluto — the first close encounter