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New Horizons starts journey to Pluto

The New Horizons probe lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 2 p.m Thursday on a 3-billion mile journey to study Pluto, the solar system’s last unexplored planet, and examine a mysterious zone of icy objects at the outer edges of the planetary system.

It was the swiftest spacecraft ever launched and was expected to reach Earth’s moon in nine hours and Jupiter in just over a year. New Horizons will reach Pluto in 2015.

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