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Pluto-bound probe faces crisis

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NASA scientists scramble to find an object in the outer Solar System’s Kuiper belt in time for a close-up visit.

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Witze, A. Pluto-bound probe faces crisis. Nature 509, 407–408 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/509407a

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