"uray" wrote in message ...
"Dholmes" wrote in message
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IMO sadly Pluto is still funded.

Not in my opinion. They could cancel the whole Mars program and I wouldn't
be as upset as losing the Pluto mission. We know very little about Pluto,
and our best images are not much more than blobs on film.

We know very little about a whole lot of chunks of
ice in the outer solar system. Some of them in the
same size range as Pluto or Charon. So? We know
*less* about Mars than Pluto because there are more
unanswered questions and those questions are of
greater consequence.