Public event at CU to mark Pluto fly-by

BOULDER — The University of Colorado Boulder will host a free public event at Fiske Planetarium Tuesday evening to mark the New Horizon spacecraft’s closest approach to Pluto.

The three-hour event, beginning at 5 p.m., will include the showing of a new documentary, “The Year of Pluto,” followed by live feeds from NASA headquarters and a live panel discussion. The planetarium is located at 2414 Regent Drive on the CU-Boulder campus.

A team of CU-Boulder students designed, built and tested the Student Dust Counter for the mission to measure dust particles along the way that are remnants of collisions between solar-system bodies.…