<font size="2"><br>Just to continue on this thread. According to [1], New Horizons will be going ~</font><font size="2">50,370 km/h when it passes by Pluto. Compare that with the Stardust sample return capsule which hit the Earth's atmosphere at ~
</font><font size="2">46,660 km/h -- that isn't *that* big a difference. Now I realize that Pluto doesn't have much of an atmosphere one can use to slow one down but there ought to be ways (as I mentioned previously) to compensate.
<br><br>Robert<br><br>1. <a href="http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/q0260.shtml">http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/q0260.shtml</a><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica""><br></font>