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Why the Pluto flyby matters
After almost a decade-long journey and 3 billion miles through the solar system, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history when it passed by Pluto in July of 2015. Dr. Phil Metzger, a planetary physicist at the University of Central Florida Space Institute and former NASA scientist at the Kennedy Space Center, discusses the significance of the flyby.
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