KBO encounters |
KBO encounters |
Aug 2 2008, 12:53 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 1-August 08 Member No.: 4280 |
Hi,
I’m regular follower of NH and I’m also interested in the 2nd leg of the mission, i.e the 2016+ KBOs encounters. Does anyone know when operations about this leg (starting with searching objects of interest with HST or some other earth-based means, I suppose) are expected to begin ? |
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May 16 2011, 09:56 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 717 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
As hendric and others have noted, the beta version of our KBO search site, Ice Hunters, is now online at demo.icehunters.org. We're not making a big public announcement till we launch the site with the 2011 data in a month or so, but in the meantime we'd love to have people sign up and start looking for objects the 2004 data currrently posted. This beta version will help us get the bugs out of the pipeline so everything is ready for the new data, but the 2004 data in the beta version are intrinsically scientifically useful too. Those data also covered the New Horizons search area, and may well include KBOs that New Horizons can access. Ideally, we'll find KBOs in our 2011 campaign that we can then trace back to detections in these 2004 data- in that case we'll be able to determine accurate orbits for those objects much more quickly, to see whether the spacecraft can reach them.
Thanks in advance for your help! John |
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May 17 2011, 12:50 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1374 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Oh dear I can't use IE7, which is on my work PC, bummer.
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