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New Horizons: Approach Phase, OpsNav - 25 January 15 to 28 June 15 |
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The LORRI image release for today is up at :
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-A...p?page=20150204 |
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It seemed to me to be a drift of the Pluto/Charon barycenter relative to the star background, somewhere near 3e-3 degrees over more than three weeks.
I could imagine a slightly curved trajectory of New Horizons due to the Sun's field of gravity, or an effect of Pluto's orbital motion, or just some glitch in my processing or perception. But that's just preliminary ideas; I haven't done a fully accurate analysis (yet), and may post a revision later. (I'm intending to take a look at the hazmat images, first.) For an accurate analysis of the orbits of the moons, however, it will likely be necessary to determine or rule out the presumed drift. |
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