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posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 15 2015, @06:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the amazingly-assonant-aliteration dept.

As of this morning, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has flown by Pluto. Early images (here and here) are the best glimpses we have had of the dwarf planet. More detailed pictures are expected to be released this afternoon and over the next 16 months.

Update: New Horizons is expected to call home at 8:53 PM EDT.

Update: Contact with New Horizons re-established! Telemetry download has begun.

Update: New Horizons team unveils its first findings from the Pluto flypast – that briefing is on Wednesday at 3pm ET [sic] (8pm BST/Thursday 5am AEST) [updated at 14:59 UTC 15 July]

 
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @01:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @01:35PM (#208876)

    Pulchritudinous

    Put the thesaurus down and back away from it slowly.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @01:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @01:41PM (#208880)

    Pulchritudinous is a perfectly cromulent word.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @05:29PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @05:29PM (#209005)

      So you're saying the cromulentitudinosity of "pulchritudinous" is perfect?

  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday July 14 2015, @02:01PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday July 14 2015, @02:01PM (#208890)

    Especially since they just could have used "Pretty" and maintained the alliteration.

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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @02:19PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @02:19PM (#208896)

      Well it is pretty pulchritudinous.

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday July 14 2015, @03:25PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday July 14 2015, @03:25PM (#208930) Journal

    Put it down? I croodle with mine, you insensitive clod!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @08:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @08:38PM (#209569)

    Am I the only one who had to look it up just to see how to even pronounce it?