New Horizons launched on January 19, 2006, and itâll reach Pluto on July 14, 2015. Do a little math and youâll find that it has taken 9 years, 5 months and 25 days. The Voyager spacecraft did the distance between Earth and Pluto in about 12.5 years, although, neither spacecraft actually flew past Pluto.
The meaning of the name Sparta is Simple, Frugal. The origin of the name Sparta is Greek. This is the culture in which the name originated, or in the case of a word, the language. Ancient Greek place name. In Greek mythology, Sparta was the daughter of Eurotas and the wife of Lacedaemon, son of Zeus. Origin of the adjective spartan..
Sparta was, however, an ally with Athens in the defence of Greece against the invasion of Persian king Xerxes, and fought with distinction at Thermopylae in 480 BCE and at Plataea one year later.