Why Didn't Voyager Visit Pluto?

Flash Modin writes: NASA built the twin Voyager spacecraft for a rare planetary alignment that put Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune within reach at once. Originally, Voyager 1 was programmed to see Pluto in 1986, but managers targeted Saturn's planet-like moon Titan instead. That choice made Pluto impossible by vaulting Voyager 1 from the orbital plane. Interestingly, Voyager 2, which couldn't reach Pluto, made the case for New Horizons by revealing Neptune's moon Triton as a kidnapped Pluto. "I'm very glad that they chose not to go to Pluto in 1986," says New Horizons head Alan Stern. "We'll do a better job at Pluto with modern instruments than they would have, and they did a much better job at Saturn..."

Comments

I'm not saying it was aliens

[known_coward_69]

but there is a secret alien base on Pluto

Pluto was on away at the time

[backslashdot]

Pluto was on away on a planetary midgets conference.

Hello my baby!

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Why Didn't Voyager Visit Pluto?

Because of the bark, you dummies!

Re:Because titan has ice, pluto isn't even a plane

[wonkey_monkey]

No, the moons have been renamed now that it's a dwarf planet. Sharon, Tracy, Debbie, Jessica, and Steve.

Steeeve!