New Horizons late cruise, 500 Millions kms - ~200 million kms |
New Horizons late cruise, 500 Millions kms - ~200 million kms |
Oct 16 2014, 05:31 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 541 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
Well I have to say it ...
I always had faith in them. www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=2048&view=findpost&p=37681 Congratulations! |
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Oct 16 2014, 09:57 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 77 Joined: 27-June 04 From: Queensland Australia Member No.: 90 |
We'll soon see how similar Pluto is to Triton (or not as the case may be). Exciting times indeed.
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Oct 16 2014, 10:14 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
2016 -2017 (like 1990 -1991) should be a great time for bringing out books on the solar system. So, rough back-of-the-laptop calculation has a cruise time to KBO encounter of ~3.5 years. That's assuming constant speed, ~1 billion miles further to go. Here's to hoping a few more pop out of the woodwork! May have to delay that textbook by a couple of years! I asked Alex Parker about the possibility of searching for scattered disc objects: QUOTE We've tossed this idea around. It will require more study of the scattered disk population to know if this is feasible.
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Oct 16 2014, 07:33 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 78 Joined: 16-October 12 From: Pennsylvania Member No.: 6711 |
They would most likely need to apply for Hubble time again. When someone inevitably writes a book on New Horizons they will have to mention the invaluable amount of help Hubble has done for the mission.
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Oct 16 2014, 09:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1585 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
Mag 26.8 for PT1 ... according to Wikipedia, visible from 8m telescopes? They don't need hubble exclusively to track it?
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Oct 16 2014, 09:17 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 78 Joined: 16-October 12 From: Pennsylvania Member No.: 6711 |
I meant if they wanted to look for a scattered disk object like SFJCody suggested. Not PT1.
Incidentally, which telescope do you think would be able to find KBOs better, Hubble or the Webb? |
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Oct 16 2014, 09:24 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 701 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
We will probably try to track these guys from the ground. From our ground-based search campaign, we already have a huge amount of data covering the locations of these objects, from 6-meter and 8-meter telescopes, going back to 2011. These KBOs are too faint to have been *discovered* in those data, but now we know where look, we might be able to *recover* them from the images, and thus extend our knowledge of their orbits. We'll be working on that over the winter, and will also be considering future ground-based tracking observations. Future ground-based tracking won't be as precise as Hubble's, but may provide a useful supplement and backup to Hubble- we'll see.
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Oct 16 2014, 09:35 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
John, this is probably a very premature question, but if JWST launches as currently scheduled could it too play a part in final pre-encounter position & size observations of PT1? Main reason I ask is that STScI is to be the controlling organization for both scopes, if I'm not mistaken.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 16 2014, 10:33 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 701 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
Yes, quite possibly, *if* it launches in 2018- we certainly won't be counting on it! Keep in mind, of course, that PT1 isn't necessarily our final choice- the other two are still in the running.
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Dec 7 2014, 02:06 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
The NH final wakeup coverage is live now here. (began 0200 GMT/7 Dec)
EDIT: Also, here's a link to Eyes On The DSN. DSS43 at Canberra is currently listening for NH. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 7 2014, 02:19 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2346 Joined: 7-December 12 Member No.: 6780 |
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Dec 7 2014, 02:32 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
I have confirmation from a trusted source that telemetry is being received. Good morning, New Horizons!!!
EDIT: Comments indicate that wake-up telemetry was "fully nominal". Excellent and most welcome news! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 7 2014, 05:14 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
On Pluto's Doorstep, NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Encounter
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/20141206.php -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
http://human-spaceflight.blogspot.com |
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Dec 7 2014, 11:06 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 77 Joined: 27-June 04 From: Queensland Australia Member No.: 90 |
Excellent news. Does anybody know when we can expect the next set of LORRI images of the Pluto system?
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Dec 7 2014, 11:09 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
you will find all the answers to your questions in Emily's blog:
The New Horizons science mission to the Pluto-Charon system is about to begin |
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