Uranus Orbiter, The other proposed ice-giant mission |
Uranus Orbiter, The other proposed ice-giant mission |
Nov 11 2005, 05:13 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 2-July 05 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 426 |
Since the Neptune Orbiter thread has started to veer into talking about a Uranus orbiter as well, it seemed like a good idea to start a topic for Uranus.
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Apr 10 2007, 12:53 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
Apparently the big reason to prefer Neptune to Uranus, given that you could only do one in a ten (or twenty) year period was that by the time you got to Uranus, it'd be tilted on the side just as it had been for Voyager, ~40 years before. (Although, technically, it'd be the OTHER side.) Accordingly, they'd rather wait an extra 20 years and try to visit it at the next Uranian equinox. Maybe by my 100th birthday in 2058.
Pity is, if Alan could have sent NH2 there, it'd have got there at the Equinox -- more or less. --Greg |
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