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Greetings to your grandmother, I hope she is keeping best of her health.

• What was your reaction when you first came to know about the Holocaust?

• When did you realize the war will be over soon as allied forces have taken the charge of the situation?

• How did native Germans first react to Hitler's suicide?

• And lastly, what did you enjoy doing most during your young age, like any hobbies or something?

Once again thanks for doing this! :)

Congratulations to the New Horizons Team, JHU/APL and SwRI for achieving this great feat. I have been super excited about this flyby since a couple of months, and was constantly checking the Twitter feed for updates since morning. I was awestruck after looking at the latest image of Pluto. Some of things and questions would like to ask to you guys are:

• New Horizons is moving pretty fast ( ~16km/s), it made it's closest approach at ~12,500 km which was for a very short period of time, I read somewhere that it was around just 8 minutes and now the distance from Pluto is increasing again. I want to know why didn't the team made the decision to slow down NH for a bit, so that it can collect more data, and more images. Was it possible to do that? And if yes, how would that decision had effected this mission or health of the space probe?

• There are less craters on Pluto's surface as compared to other solid bodies in Solar System, how and why and what are your thoughts on that?

• Is there an atmosphere on Pluto? What's its composition?

Thanks for doing this.