Where is New Horizons now |
Where is New Horizons now |
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i found this web site
http://www.heavens-above.com/solar-escape.asp it show where NH is compared to voy1, 2/pioneer any one else have a fav web page that shows NH loc? I think this one is updated onece a day |
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Could someone elaborate on Pluto's position in relation to the ecliptic, as the dwarfplanet orbits at a 17° angle to the plane.
Is the NH encounter timed so Pluto-Charon pass through the ecliptic in order to get a better change to dive further into the outer regions of the solar system towards other KBOs and possibly SDOs? |
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Could someone elaborate on Pluto's position in relation to the ecliptic, as the dwarfplanet orbits at a 17° angle to the plane. Is the NH encounter timed so Pluto-Charon pass through the ecliptic in order to get a better change to dive further into the outer regions of the solar system towards other KBOs and possibly SDOs? I don't think they had any choice about it. At the time of the encounter, Pluto will have a moderately high, southern declination (something like 10 deg, if memory serves.) They definitely wanted to get to Pluto before it was too far from the Sun, and Pluto is in a Kozai resonance, so its declination and distance from the Sun are highly correlated. A side effect of this, by the way, is that some New Horizons and Cassini scientists may end up arguing with each other about the use of the Canberra 70-m DSN station, since it is by far the best for a spacecraft in the southern sky. Since there is an overlap in the science teams, some scientists will get to argue with themselves about this. |
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