Tracking Nh? |
Tracking Nh? |
Jan 22 2006, 04:58 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 1-January 06 From: Mesa, AZ Member No.: 631 |
Is there any available information on approximating or seeing the "distance" of where NH is compared to Pluto, and Jupiter? I'd like to be able to see where it is during the next few years:)
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Jan 27 2006, 01:53 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 180 |
Or Prometheus even?
I don't think it's "if" I think it's - "When" the project will get back on track, even if under a different name. Unless we happen to stumble across easy antimatter technology before then...put bluntly, not bloody likely though for the latter. |
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Jan 27 2006, 03:03 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 183 Joined: 22-October 05 From: Cape Canaveral, FL Member No.: 534 |
It caught my eye in Alan's perspective that it remains inside 1 Au until Jan. 29, but this is because we launched just after perihelion, which I believe I understand.
So, knowing hyperbolic orbits, NH never left Earth on a trajectory aimed inside our orbital direction, correct (as in, once it left Earth it never gets closer than Earth is to the sun at this present moment in time; only that NH is closer than the defined 1 Au distance)? Earth is currently inside 1 Au itself (obviously), and NH is always outbound from our orbit even if within 1 Au, is what I am trying to clarify? :-) I think I am just a bit misled by hearing that it is inside 1 Au, thinking it could be closer to the Sun than Earth now, which is what is it not. -------------------- |
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