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		privong on July 23, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cous... > Now maybe you can do that with Pluto using some far-off star for reference, not sure. It has been done for Pluto, first in 1988, with an occultation of a background star[0]. [0] http://www.space.com/29885-pluto-atmosphere-to-be-revealed-b...

goodcanadian on July 23, 2015 [–]

And most recently with SOFIA at the end of June:

https://sofia.usra.edu/News/news_2015/06_29_15/index.html

This will help tie in past and future occultation observations to the New Horizons data.

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