New Horizons Jupiter Encounter |
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Jan 10 2007, 09:47 PM
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Feb 28 2007, 06:23 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 9-January 06 Member No.: 639 |
Closest approach to Jupiter occurred at 05:43:40 UTC Feb 28th, at a speed of 22.86 km/s. NH came to within 2.3 million km of Jupiter's center.
At 06:07:12 UTC, NH reached yet another milestone when it reached 800 million km from the sun. Now, it's on to Pluto! NH is currently 3.937 million km from Pluto. Later! J P |
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Feb 28 2007, 06:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Closest approach to Jupiter occurred at 05:43:40 UTC Feb 28th, at a speed of 22.86 km/s. NH came to within 2.3 million km of Jupiter's center. At 06:07:12 UTC, NH reached yet another milestone when it reached 800 million km from the sun. Now, it's on to Pluto! NH is currently 3.937 million km from Pluto. Later! J P Those numbers don't sound right -- we just passed 2.3 million km from Jupiter, and Pluto, which is eight years' travel yet away, is less than twice that same distance away, at less than 4 million km? I'm thinking that the distance to Pluto ought to be billions, not millions, of km -- am I right? -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Mar 2 2007, 03:18 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 9-January 06 Member No.: 639 |
Those numbers don't sound right -- we just passed 2.3 million km from Jupiter, and Pluto, which is eight years' travel yet away, is less than twice that same distance away, at less than 4 million km? I'm thinking that the distance to Pluto ought to be billions, not millions, of km -- am I right? -the other Doug Whoops! That should have been 3.967 billion km to Pluto! My bad! J P |
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