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Whoa! I hadn't thought about that. The speed of New Horizons hasn't been constant, of course, but the accumulated time difference is probably close to what you calculated. There would also be a correction due to it being farther out of the Sun's gravity well, but that's a much trickery calculation.


(Just a note: His math is off.)

You also have to account for the dilation caused by the force of launch itself.

But then you have to subtract the dilation of Earth.

> There would also be a correction due to it being farther out of the Sun's gravity well

Because it is in free-fall relative to the Sun there is no Solar gravitational dilation.




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