Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!telmail!neabbs!renealte From: renealte@neabbs.UUCP (RENE ALTENA) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: pluto-flight Message-ID: <214631@neabbs.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 89 15:13:31 GMT Organization: NEABBS multi-line BBS +31-20-717666 (13x), Amsterdam, Holland Lines: 12 Recently I read about the possibility to send a very small spacecraft to Pluto, using magnetic force fields to accelerate the thing. How realistic is this option. It would mean that a journey would not last for 16 years, but only for a few years, which would make it possible to reach Pluto in about 2004. About the size: approx. the size of a large jar (or a coffee pot). _ Curious, Rene Altena, The Netherlands Student University of Twente, Netherlands ('...you know, the guys that found out something about superconductivity...' (I'm studying business, by the way)).