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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 2192958, member: 19423&quot;]Two.&nbsp; A Florida State Quarter and a Maryland State Quarter.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you may know, the NASA New Horizons spacecraft which launched 9 years ago is arriving at Pluto on this week.&nbsp; It&#039;s the first probe sent to Pluto, which was a planet when New Horizons launched, but has since been demoted to a dwarf planet.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two state quarters were put aboard the spacecraft before launch, Florida because that is where the spacecraft was launched and Maryland because that is where it was built. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a pic of the Florida State Quarter that is on the New Horizons spacecraft that is now very close to Pluto. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/139751main_FL_quarter-LG-580x496.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And if you want more information about these two quarters, here&#039;s an article about them.&nbsp; Very interesting to hear where the quarters came from, how they actually serve a purpose on the craft and are not just there for fun, and why they needed two of them... very cool!!!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://collectspace.com/news/news-102808a.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://collectspace.com/news/news-102808a.html" rel="nofollow">http://collectspace.com/news/news-102808a.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And for more information, photos and videos of the New Horizons mission to Pluto, check out the link:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/" rel="nofollow">http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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