2014 MU69 "Ultima Thule" flyby, For discussion of the encounter as it happens |
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2014 MU69 "Ultima Thule" flyby, For discussion of the encounter as it happens |
 Jan 2 2019, 12:02 AM
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QUOTE (MahFL @ Jan 2 2019, 12:35 AM)  NYT 1 data download should be on the ground now. As of a few minutes ago, NASA's DSN-now webpage showed the s 70 meter antenna at Goldstone had just finished a downlink with New Horizons... LORRI gallery still showing 57 images down, 52 available to browse... http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/UltimaThule-Encounter/ |
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Jan 2 2019, 01:50 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 25-December 18 Member No.: 8512 |
And NYT 2 downlink has begun, with stable signal and an indicated data rate of 1.06kb/sec. Should be a good news conference tomorrow :-)
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Jan 2 2019, 02:58 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: 24-July 15 Member No.: 7619 |
QUOTE (WTW @ Jan 2 2019, 01:50 AM) Should be a good news conference tomorrow :-) Will be interesting to see how close the prior predictions are... Great Expectations: Plans and Predictions for New Horizons Encounter with Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU 69 (‘Ultima Thule’) submitted to Geophysical Research Letters, June 14, 201 |
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Jan 2 2019, 04:15 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 23 Joined: 24-August 07 Member No.: 3405 |
Well done project team!
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Jan 2 2019, 05:20 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Anybody seen an announcement for the next news conference, presumably sometime tomorrow morning East Coast US (2 Jan/GMT-4)? Been looking, haven't found anything.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jan 2 2019, 05:28 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2083 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Emily's post says 2:00 PM EST, and that's what I'm counting on. Her table hasn't been wrong yet!
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Jan 2 2019, 05:32 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Yes, that is classic Emily.
 Was wondering if perhaps there was gonna be a pop-up coinciding with the initial data reception, but a- of course there must be some preparation and more importantly b- the team probably should get some sleep since they've been up for like a week or so.  Thanks! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jan 2 2019, 06:11 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 25-December 18 Member No.: 8512 |
The New Horizons web site at http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Where-to-Watch.php also still shows press briefings at 2:00-3:00PM EST on both Wednesday 2 Jan. and Thursday 3 Jan.
The news briefing tomorrow (Wednesday) will happen while the NYT 3 downlink is still in progress; hopefully we'll see those LORRI + MVIC images on Thursday, and maybe even some first LEISA and SWAP/PEPSI results. |
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Jan 2 2019, 08:00 AM
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A tweet from James Tuttle Keane: Finishing a long night of analyzing new images of #UltimaThule. I can’t wait for you all to see. For now, here’s a teaser...
In case you don’t follow James, he draws sketches... Hard to make hypothesis but at least it seams UT is not white only ! -------------------- |
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Jan 2 2019, 08:49 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 25-December 18 Member No.: 8512 |
NYT 2 just finished. Signal dropped at Canberra at about 08:35UTC.
Indicated signal strength was as low as about -150 dBm for a short period, but was in general very stable at previous nominal levels throughout the 6 hrs 45 min. The entire communications pass was via the Canberra 70m dish. Noticed that data rate dropped to an indicated 841 bps just before 05:51 UTC, and then to 501 bps at about 07:26UTC. Very stable after each change. |
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Jan 2 2019, 09:41 AM
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QUOTE (climber @ Jan 2 2019, 09:00 AM) A tweet from James Tuttle Keane: Finishing a long night of analyzing new images of #UltimaThule. I can’t wait for you all to see. [...] It appears we all are now part of a modern ("spacy") version of the Marshmallow Test...  |
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Jan 2 2019, 10:17 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 5-August 06 From: Berlin (Milky Way) Member No.: 1014 |
From the "Failsafe 2" raw-image data set (2x zoomed; co-registered to inertial stars) |
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Jan 2 2019, 01:34 PM
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QUOTE (climber @ Jan 2 2019, 03:00 AM) A tweet from James Tuttle Keane: Finishing a long night of analyzing new images of #UltimaThule. I can’t wait for you all to see. For now, here’s a teaser...
A pile of pencil shavings? I now have this mental image of a brave little group of icy bits huddled up in a little gravity well for comfort against the cold, dark void. I guess I can anthropomorphize anything...  |
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Jan 2 2019, 02:13 PM
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QUOTE (climber @ Jan 2 2019, 03:00 AM) A tweet from James Tuttle Keane: Finishing a long night of analyzing new images of #UltimaThule. I can’t wait for you all to see. For now, here’s a teaser...
In case you don’t follow James, he draws sketches... Hard to make hypothesis but at least it seams UT is not white only ! My not-so-educated-guess: Large lobe has a jagged appearance (pencils) - maybe with a single "spike", small lobe is "lumpy" (pencil shavings) and the middle is regolith-like fine material. |
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Jan 2 2019, 02:43 PM
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