renealte@neabbs.UUCP (RENE ALTENA) (09/23/89)
Recently I read about the possibility to send a very small spacecraft
to Pluto, using magnetic force fields to accelerate the thing.
How realistic is this option. It would mean that a journey would not
last for 16 years, but only for a few years, which would make it
possible to reach Pluto in about 2004.
About the size: approx. the size of a large jar (or a coffee pot).
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Curious,
Rene Altena, The Netherlands
Student University of Twente, Netherlands ('...you know, the guys that
found out something about superconductivity...' (I'm studying
business, by the way)).