The Kuiper Belt, beyond Neptune, is the third great domain of the Solar System, and home to the Pluto–Charon binary. What are the prospects for exploration of these distant worlds?
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* From Here to Pluto–Charon: A New Horizons PKB Mission Workshop, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 20–21 May 2002.
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McKinnon, W. Out on the edge. Nature 418, 135–137 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/418135a
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