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<p>[QUOTE="Skyman, post: 6526884, member: 28299"][USER=112342]@JayAg47[/USER] Fun piece and detective story!</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=24633]@cpm9ball[/USER] [USER=92655]@Randy Abercrombie[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>To the best of my knowledge the most traveled coin would actually be a twofer. Two Washington 50 State quarters; one of Florida to represent Kennedy Space Center, where the spacecraft was launched, and one of Maryland to represent Goddard Space Flight Center, which controlled (is controlling) the spacecraft during it's flight. The two coins were used as weights to help balance the spacecraft.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and the spacecraft you ask, what is it, and where might it be? It is the probe <i>New Horizons</i>, which imaged Pluto in July 2015. It is currently roughly 4.7 BILLION miles from Earth, and will continue traveling until it hits something or is sucked into some gravity well, or potentially will continue onward and outward for eternity.</p><p><br /></p><p>My most traveled coin flew on Gemini 4, traveling just over 1,600,000 miles in just over 4 days.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1261073[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Skyman, post: 6526884, member: 28299"][USER=112342]@JayAg47[/USER] Fun piece and detective story! [USER=24633]@cpm9ball[/USER] [USER=92655]@Randy Abercrombie[/USER] To the best of my knowledge the most traveled coin would actually be a twofer. Two Washington 50 State quarters; one of Florida to represent Kennedy Space Center, where the spacecraft was launched, and one of Maryland to represent Goddard Space Flight Center, which controlled (is controlling) the spacecraft during it's flight. The two coins were used as weights to help balance the spacecraft. Oh, and the spacecraft you ask, what is it, and where might it be? It is the probe [I]New Horizons[/I], which imaged Pluto in July 2015. It is currently roughly 4.7 BILLION miles from Earth, and will continue traveling until it hits something or is sucked into some gravity well, or potentially will continue onward and outward for eternity. My most traveled coin flew on Gemini 4, traveling just over 1,600,000 miles in just over 4 days. [ATTACH=full]1261073[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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