Neptune Orbiter, Another proposed mission |
Neptune Orbiter, Another proposed mission |
Nov 10 2005, 03:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 2-July 05 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 426 |
This seems like a good place to start off the Uranus and Neptune forum: with the next ice-giants mission.
I will admit to not knowing a whole lot about the Neptune Orbiter With Probes (NOWP), other than the fact that it's in the planning stages, and a few other details I've gathered from Wikipedia and various other Internet sources. Anyone care to get this one going with a bit more information? |
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Feb 14 2007, 01:57 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 2-July 05 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 426 |
The orbits will certainly precess -- but at that distance from the Sun, tidal effects have got to be tiny. The changes would happen over a very long period of time.
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Feb 17 2007, 09:16 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 288 Joined: 28-September 05 From: Orion arm Member No.: 516 |
Hi,
any ideas for an illustration, report, paper, etc. of Triton's seasonal changes during its 176 year trip together with Neptune around the sun combined with its 157.35 deg retrograde orbit? Would be very interesting to visualize how polar night and day are changing and which latitudes are affected... Triton should be the strangest world in the solar system concerning seasonal changes, even if the seasons are quite long out there... THX & Bye. |
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