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New Horizons: Pre-launch, launch and main cruise, Pluto and the Kuiper belt
Fran Ontanaya
post Oct 19 2008, 02:15 PM
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9 items? A list of the planets in the Solar System... rolleyes.gif
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post Oct 19 2008, 02:15 PM
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Are they 9 additional items, separate from some of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes?
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post Oct 19 2008, 02:32 PM
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Maybe something like this?


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post Oct 19 2008, 02:54 PM
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I'm guessing that 'Pluto: Not Yet Explored' postage stamp is one of them.
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post Oct 19 2008, 04:04 PM
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Well, two of them would have to be Clyde Tombaugh's ashes, and the CD with all the names on it.
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post Oct 19 2008, 07:51 PM
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QUOTE (Alan Stern @ October 19th, 2008, 08:57 AM) *
Tuesday or so.

Thanks.
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post Oct 19 2008, 09:16 PM
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Does Plutonium count?
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post Oct 20 2008, 11:21 AM
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QUOTE (stevesliva @ Oct 19 2008, 09:16 PM) *
Does Plutonium count?


No, but some of you are hot on the trail to the 9.
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post Oct 20 2008, 11:29 AM
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From what I've been able to hunt around and find...

Sample of CT's ashes (1)
Two state quarters (2, 3)
SS1 piece (4)
CD of Names (5)
Pluto Not Explored Stamp (6)
Design idea of a stamp to replace it (7)
CD of personal photos from team members (8)

I'm stuck on number 9. I thought of some fluffy 'the spirit of exploration' type answers, perhaps something Columbia or Challenger related like the HGA's on MER, or even WTC related like their RAT cable covers.

But after considerable thought, I've decided that it must be the MSL budget onboard, thus explaining how it's gone thru the roof.

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post Oct 20 2008, 11:33 AM
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Had the launch been delayed by a year, or that IAU Pluto vote been held earlier, I guess the 10th item would have been one (or more) IAU membership cards rolleyes.gif


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post Oct 20 2008, 12:25 PM
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How about a Disney Pluto character figurine ??

IIRC, the character was named for the planet in the same time frame Tombaugh discovered it. Nice homage to public fascination with this mysterious orb.

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post Oct 20 2008, 01:53 PM
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A missing sock from my dryer.


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post Oct 21 2008, 12:34 AM
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What is an SS1 piece?

As far as ideas for the 9 items, what about a copy of the original Pluto discovery plates from 1930?
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post Oct 21 2008, 01:43 AM
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Have any potential Kuiper belt objects been detected for after the Pluto flyby?

I'm a little worried that they won't find anything reachable.
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post Oct 21 2008, 07:32 AM
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QUOTE (laurele @ Oct 21 2008, 01:34 AM) *
What is an SS1 piece?


A little piece of Burt Rutan / Scaled Composite's Space Ship 1, that won the X-Prize.

It also won a place in my heart as the coolest looking aircraft ever built, and a mental place of solace so I can go "Yeah, it's 2008 and I don't have my flying car yet...but we do have THAT"

Doug
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