SPACE/IDEA FUTURES: Is the Pluto Mission a silly idea?

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To answer Robert's subject line:
No, I don't think that it is a silly idea. The Kuiper belt is one of
the most unknown/really mysterious regions of the Solar System, well
worth studying.

(the only silly idea is that NASA didn't select the Pluto/Kuiper proposal
which had a dust detector onboard ...)

Robert wrote:
>Now here is the rub. It isn't supposed to get there until 2020.

Why do you make this an issue? The outer solar system is a loooooong
distance away.

Amara

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