Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Sat, 5 Jan 2019 13:53:17 +0100, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
wrote:
Different from the Pioneer and Voyager probes (and the future Project
Breakthrough Starshot), New Horizons is (currently) not supposed to leave
the Sol system in the first place, but to investigate Kuiper Belt objects
“at least a billion miles beyond Neptune’s orbit”. (Originally it was not
even supposed to explore beyond Pluto–Charon; the Kuiper Belt mission is
already the mission extension).

Read the mission description before you jump to conclusions (extrapolate a
trajectory) only from a *current* heading.

Think before you post.

Likewise.

Whether or not its nearly linear path lines up closely enough to any additional
objects that it can study them is a matter of luck.

You mean probability.

Its trajectory is hyperbolic; it WILL leave the Solar System,
and there's no way to change that.

Incorrect.

It was always understood that its trajectory would cause it to do so.

Since we have almost no idea what is in the Sol System beyond Ultima Thule,
this is not only an unfounded, but utterly ridiculous claim.

It is the purpose of this mission extension to investigate the Kuiper Belt,
not to make an interstellar probe out of NH.

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