Women scientists made up 25% of the Pluto fly-by New Horizon team. Make sure you share this, because erasing women’s achievements in science and history is a tradition. Happens every day.
.http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150712
70 seconds over 9 years and 3 billion miles…
…I just… Damn
Launch to Pluto flyby for New Horizons took 3,580 days, and she was off by 70 seconds. That’s like… That’s an error of 0.000000226%.
That’s fucking insane.
That’s not even a rounding error!
Thank you for putting words & numbers to my awe of her precision.
omg, i thought for a second that humans had flown to pluto. i was like whaaaaaaaat??
but, no, that’s seriously awesome, i hope they get some super cool data to play with.
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