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A white arrow marks Pluto in this New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance
Imager (LORRI) picture taken Sept. 21, 2006. Seen at a distance of about
4.2 billion kilometers (2.6 billion miles) from the spacecraft, Pluto is
little more than a faint point of light among a dense field of stars.
Mission scientists knew they had Pluto in their sights when LORRI detected
an unresolved "point" in Pluto's predicted position, moving at the
planet's expected motion across the constellation of Sagittarius near the
plane of the Milky Way galaxy.
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NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest
Research Institute
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