Congratulations To Alan Et. Al., Now hurry up and wait... :) |
Congratulations To Alan Et. Al., Now hurry up and wait... :) |
Jan 19 2006, 08:51 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Just a quite post-sep thread to say congratulations to Alan and the team, here's to a clean checkout and small TCM's Many thanks for taking the time to share the experience to date with us here, your efforts are very much appreciated.
Doug |
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Jan 19 2006, 09:20 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 19-January 06 From: Chicago Member No.: 649 |
I think it's amazing that people like Alan and his crew can put together such a mission and initiate it. I mean, there must only be a handful of people on this earth that have the technical knowledge to do that.
My question is that once the craft wakes up 6 months prior to the Pluto encounter, will it have time to take one or two pictures and send us a teaser image of Pluto? I think it'll drive me crazy to know that NH has a ton of images but we'll have to wait a few weeks before we can see any of them. David |
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Jan 19 2006, 09:27 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 447 Joined: 1-July 05 From: New York City Member No.: 424 |
QUOTE (Boxcarx @ Jan 19 2006, 04:20 PM) My question is that once the craft wakes up 6 months prior to the Pluto encounter, will it have time to take one or two pictures and send us a teaser image of Pluto? I think it'll drive me crazy to know that NH has a ton of images but we'll have to wait a few weeks before we can see any of them. Alan addressed this at the press conference. Observations from the approach will be transmitted to earth on a daily basis until shortly before the approach. If I recall correctly, 6 weeks before the encounter, NH images will supass the best that Hubble can do. So there should be lots of pictures of Pluto looming larger. TTT P.S. Alan also announced that some of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes are on board, as was surmised by many members here. |
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Jan 19 2006, 10:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (Tom Tamlyn @ Jan 19 2006, 04:27 PM) P.S. Alan also announced that some of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes are on board, as was surmised by many members here. Wonderful news. I am glad to know that the first human to leave our Sol system for the larger Milky Way galaxy (in some form at least) will be Dr. Tombaugh. He certainly deserves the honor. Does anyone have or know where images of the capsule holding his ashes can be found? Where were they placed on the probe? Did a commemorative plaque or other message accompany them? And if NH is ever found by starfaring ETI or our descendants, perhaps they will also have the technology to analyze Dr. Tombaugh's remains to learn something about a representative sample of a Twentieth Century human being from Earth. I did a Google search for the news, and this is the odd place I found it (scroll way down): http://www.superbowl.com/news/story/9170836 Audio of Clyde's widow, Patricia, talking about her husband: http://web.dailycamera.com/video/todd/Patr...-2006-01-15.mp3 And just to throw this in, interesting article from last May by Alan Stern explaining how he came up with the probe's final name of New Horizons: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/369/1 Voyager 3 had actually been considered, but Voyager was a JPL project. They better start naming some other deep space probes Voyager 3 and so on, otherwise we won't have V'Ger to deal with in 300 years! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V'ger -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jan 20 2006, 08:02 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 19 2006, 03:12 PM) Wonderful news. I am glad to know that the first human to leave our Sol system for the larger Milky Way galaxy (in some form at least) will be Dr. Tombaugh. He certainly deserves the honor. Does anyone have or know where images of the capsule holding his ashes can be found? Where were they placed on the probe? Did a commemorative plaque or other message accompany them? And if NH is ever found by starfaring ETI or our descendants, perhaps they will also have the technology to analyze Dr. Tombaugh's remains to learn something about a representative sample of a Twentieth Century human being from Earth. I did a Google search for the news, and this is the odd place I found it (scroll way down): http://www.superbowl.com/news/story/9170836 It's gonna take Buffalo and Minnesota 2.1 billion years to win the Super Bowl?? I can't wait that long!! -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
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