Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 16, 2016

The New Horizons must of caught a tail wind.

Seeing as New Horizons made it to Pluto, now what? Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

Coincidentally, New Horizons took off just seven months before Pluto was demoted.

If it doesn’t actually land on Pluto, what is the definition of “Reaching Pluto” that is so precise as to be timed to the second?

72 seconds?How far off can you get? Did the guy in charge use a slide rule?

Must caught 1 green light along the way!!!

That’s some amazing calculations right there

That’s an error of 0.0000228%. Not bad.

Set up the “New Horizons” Real Estate office. You can still get a bungalow overlooking the frozen methane lake at a reasonable price. When Pluto was re-classified as something other than a full-fledged planet Real Estate prices plummeted, but they’ve recovered nicely now.

Google Maps had predicted the extra 72 seconds, but that was an alternative route to avoid tolls.

Ruth Graves Wakefield could be the original " chocoholic".

Other than the fact that a bowhead and Moby Dick were both whales, they have little else in common with Melville’s book. Moby Dick was characterized as a sperm whale.

Ruth wasn’t too smart, was she?!

I went to visit Pluto recently and when I got there it was gone.

Pluto is what Pluto is-

regardless of how we classify it.

Must have stopped to ask directions.

Always better early than late!

So what?Benito Mussolini made the Italian trains run ON Time!90 years ago!Try that now!

To have hit their target so precisely and so close to the time predicted, NASA achieved the same precision as having to shoot a bullet from Earth orbit and hit a sheet of paper orbiting the Moon edge on and split the sheet in two within a thousandth of a second of projected time.