ScienceCasts: Visit To Pluto

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Dwarf planet Pluto is a world of mystery waiting to be visited for the first time. NASA's New Horizons probe is racing across the solar system for a ground breaking close encounter that could dramatically alter what researchers "know" about Pluto and other small worlds.

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[lastmiles]

What are "miles"? Sorry but I am in one of few nations that has fully implemented the metric system.

[MysteryViewer]

Another moon (P5) was discovered a few weeks ago.

[eric gentile]

god is there we just need the probe to get closer so he can merge with it......

[korbin3lewis]

.60934 more



[Tonys Origami]

5280 feet, it takes 2.2 feet to equal a kilometer

[lastmiles]

yet another person that missed the point entirely. ( also, 1609.344 meters which is 5280 feet x 12 inches x 2.54 cm scaled down by 10^5 and I already knew this but most Americans are still in the stone age ... but you missed that, entirely )

[Marcus Bowyer]

Miles are slightly larger then Kilometres, something like 1200 meters

[Jerod Overfield]

Will be so cool when it get to Pluto there is so much we do not know about this planet or dwarf planet lot to learn which is true

[klakson88]

I claim this new world in the name of the planet Earth, from now on it shall be called... Luigi :)

[fnb16]

Haha that's a good point. Anyway, thanks to Google we can instantly convert any imperial units to metric so it's not that big of a deal really.

[libraryquiet]

Then why ask the question in the first place if you knew what a mile was? Dummy! Here I'll explain what a mile is..., it's the distance from your house to your aunt Shelly's house, who lives next to that 7-11.

[lastmiles]

I know what a mile is. 5280 "feet" made up of stupid things called "inches" which are 2.54 centimeters and thus the kilometer is 5280 * 12 * 2.54 / 100000 smaller than a mile which is 1.609344. So that means a mile is a hell of a lot more than a "little" longer than a kilometer. You missed the point entirely. Only moron nations ( Americans and losers ) are still using the ancient and arbitrary "english" system. Learn the digit 1 and the factor 10 and drag USA into a recent century. Damn!