After Pluto... |
After Pluto... |
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Jan 16 2006, 01:30 AM
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After pluto and any other KBO its set to intercept, how far can NH go before it dies on use? Can it reach the heliopause? Does it have any means of analyzing the heliopause and interstellar wind beyond it?
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Jan 21 2006, 12:53 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 8-December 05 Member No.: 603 |
Sorry to hijack this thread back to something serious, but...
I was looking at a plot of where stuff is in the outer solar system at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/OuterPlot.html (link provided so graciously by edstrick on the Pioneer/Asteroid Belt thread), and I noticed that there is a big gap in the Kuiper Belt right where New Horizons is headed. Is this some kind of an observational bias, or is there a real dynamic effect, some kind of scattering by Neptune, that is clearing out the exact part of the belt that we're going to visit? Does this mean that NH is less likely to find a big juicy target after Pluto? Bart |
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Jan 21 2006, 02:04 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
That's just an observational effect. NH is headed toward Sagitarius, the galactic center.
The starfields are dense there, so observers avoid them to ease their needle in the haystck hassles in finding KBOs. The KB itself has no such gap. -Alan |
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