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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
− | * At the time of the fly-by of | + | * At the time of the fly-by of Neptune, in 1989, it was the outermost of the 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 | + | * 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 became the outermost planet, well behind the respective Voyager crafts' progress. |
− | * 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 immediately became the outmost of the (eight) planets, once more, well in advance of the next orbital 'switch' (roughly in the 2220s to 2240s) when Pluto's path brings it closer to the Sun again. |
− | * However Pluto (and | + | * However Pluto (and its own mini-system of 'moons'/co-Dwarf Planets) finally experienced its own {{w|New Horizons|fly-by mission}} in 2015, which ''may'' perhaps have softened any psychological blow. |
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[[Category:Space probes]] | [[Category:Space probes]] |