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* At the time of the fly-by of {{w|Neptune}}, in 1989, it was the outermost of the nine officially recognised planets. | * At the time of the fly-by of {{w|Neptune}}, in 1989, it was the outermost of the nine officially recognised planets. | ||
* The more highly eliptical orbit of {{w|Pluto}}, which was also unfavourably positioned for any Voyager mission encounter, meant that it would be another ten years before it was the actual outermost planet, well behind the respective Voyager crafts' progress away from the Sun. | * The more highly eliptical orbit of {{w|Pluto}}, which was also unfavourably positioned for any Voyager mission encounter, meant that it would be another ten years before it was the actual outermost planet, well behind the respective Voyager crafts' progress away from the Sun. | ||
β | * Pluto was then 'demoted' from being a full planet in 2005, meaning that | + | * Pluto was then 'demoted' from being a full planet in 2005, meaning that Uranus officially became the outermost of the (eight) planets, well in advance of the next orbital 'switch' (roughly in the 2220s to 2240s) when Pluto's path would bring it closer to the Sun once more. |
* However Pluto (and partner bodies/'moons') finally experienced its own {{w|New Horizons|fly-by mission}} in 2015, which ''may'' perhaps have softened some of the psychological blow from the various snubs it had experienced over the prior decades. | * However Pluto (and partner bodies/'moons') finally experienced its own {{w|New Horizons|fly-by mission}} in 2015, which ''may'' perhaps have softened some of the psychological blow from the various snubs it had experienced over the prior decades. | ||