Thread: [Info wanted] upcoming occultation of Pluto 4th June
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Old 14-05-2010, 07:47 AM
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Pluto's orbital velocity is about 4.6km/sec, and with a diameter of a bit over 1000km, this will block the star for up to 1000/4.6 ~ 200 seconds...quite a while!
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