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New Horizon makes Jupiter flyby

Submit on Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 22:43

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of Jupiter, using the massive planet’s gravity to pick up speed for its 4.8-billion km voyage to Pluto and the unexplored Kuiper Belt region beyond.

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