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Why does it need saving? Googling it doesn't reveal any news?
NASA wants to shit-can it because of money issues. They want to turn it into a heliosphere probe, which NASA doesn't need; it just gives them an excuse to mothball it.
A shit ton of planetary scientists have been complaining and word got out, upsetting us space nerds everywhere. NASA doesn't want to send another probe out to the Kuiper Belt for another 20-30 years, as in we millennials will be old or dead by the time we get new Pluto pics if they get their way.
Universe Today article on the problem
Phys.org article
The petition was actually on Isaac Arthur's channel and is almost at 5000 signatures, please sign
I'm confused here. Are you implying that funding the New Horizons probe will achieve more Pluto science? Because it's long past Pluto and will never be able to study that object again.
It could study other Kupier belt objects, but never Pluto.
I think the petition's goal is to ensure NH flies off to explore other Kuiper Belt objects instead of being sent to the ass end of nowhere like NASA apparently wants to do