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Originally posted by: clcjim
Launched from Earth, that probe’s gonna have to travel across much of the known solar system to reach Uranus. I think they should have named it Uranus Probe - Across Solar System (UP-ASS).
Originally posted by: clcjim
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Originally posted by: DonDiego
The NASA mission to Uranus has been christened the "Herschel Orbital Reconnaissance of the Uranian System" (HORUS), . . . specifically to avoid calling it "Uranus Probe (UP)"
Launched from Earth, that probe’s gonna have to travel across much of the known solar system to reach Uranus. I think they should have named it Uranus Probe - Across Solar System (UP-ASS).
The U planet is only a billion or so miles away. Pluto, our poor demoted friend is about twice as far away from the U.
This settles the debate of all those folks that "graduate" from the U.
