Pluto Predictions, What will NH find? |
Pluto Predictions, What will NH find? |
Oct 3 2008, 04:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Dunes.
And basins. Maybe not as thoroughly chemically processed as Titan's basins, but basins. What do you think New Horizons will find at Pluto? How will Pluto surprise us? -Mike -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Oct 5 2008, 07:45 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Hmm. Interesting thoughts here from VP, oDoug & Hungry that I'll shamelessly derive from:
Pluto will look like one of the midsized Saturnian moons...sort of like Tethys, actually, with more weathering from the presence of a periodic atmosphere, low topography from an episode of global crustal melting, and perhaps even a slight resemblance to Vesta with a big honkin' oblique crater as an artifact of the event that produced Charon, Nix, Hydra & any as yet undiscovered moons. Sorry, but can't buy off on the Miranda possibility...too many orbits (and too much distance traveled; thinking fragment trajectory divergence over time) needed to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again, if that is indeed the correct explanation for Miranda's appearance. -------------------- 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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