Onwards to Uranus and Neptune! |
Onwards to Uranus and Neptune! |
Jan 12 2008, 09:40 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
As soon as MESSENGER gets to Mercury, the most poorly explored planets in the solar system will be Uranus and Neptune. Could this lead to a revival of interest in the ice giants and their retinue, in the same way that the existence of New Horizons is perhaps partly due to the Pluto stamp*?
*via Pluto Fast Flyby and later Pluto Kuiper Express |
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Feb 25 2008, 06:12 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
"Sedna would be a somewhat more appealing target."
After the Synoptic Survey Telescope's nearly whole sky survey's been going for a year and they've had time to chew on data to spot slow moving 24'th magnitude objects over the whole sky. we're going to have a LOT more Sedna's and other very interesting objects, including some that will blow our mind. There remains the possibility of a considerably larger object way-the-<bleep>-out-there that's one of the possibilities being invoked for explaining the dynamic structure of the KB. We can keep updating our personal lists of our "KB and Beyond objects we'd like to explore", but till around 2015, when results will be coming in from the SST, etc., all these discussions will be based on a tiny sample of what's in the KB |
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Feb 25 2008, 06:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
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