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user-inactivated  ·  3077 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New Horizons is aiming for its next target!

Way, WAY too far away for New Horizons. As in on the wrong side of the solar system too far away.

Interesting aside to this, Eris gives off the same profile as an object that is much easier to get to: Triton and we get the bonus of studying Neptune and its other moons out of the deal. Most of the planets we are finding around other stars are the size of Neptune and Uranus, yet we know very little about how they work and evolve.