New Horizons Jupiter Encounter Options

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

I thought I'd start a new thread for this:

Jupiter Encounter Begins
January 10, 2007

[helvick]

Not a lot new for UMSF regular's but it was an excellent lecture and it's fantastic to see these things being recorded and put up on the web. There's a very nice 2 minute clip of the NH launch included that is very cool.

A couple of nuggets that stood out that I wasn't aware of is that the team is basically locking down the Pluto flyby plan over the next couple of months, we should know the approximate sequencing in October. Also the Pluto flyby distance could be as low as 3000km although it will probably be higher and he did inidicate that the initial plan was to fly down the middle between Pluto and Charon. I hadn't realised that it would be so close, for some reason I always assumed the flyby would be at a good few 10's of thousands of km out.