To The Stars, New Horizons leaving the solar system |
To The Stars, New Horizons leaving the solar system |
Jan 13 2006, 06:38 PM
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I assume that New Horizons will eventually leave the solar system. Since it's touted as the "fastest space probe ever", will it someday overtake the Voyagers. Also, is there any sort of plaque or other item for potential aliens to read, as there were with the other "interstellar" spacecraft?
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Jan 13 2006, 06:40 PM
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If someone in charge wants to move this to the "New Horizons" subfolder, that would be fine with me. That's where I thought I was putting it.
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Jan 13 2006, 06:49 PM
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QUOTE (ToSeek @ Jan 13 2006, 10:38 AM) I assume that New Horizons will eventually leave the solar system. Since it's touted as the "fastest space probe ever", will it someday overtake the Voyagers. Also, is there any sort of plaque or other item for potential aliens to read, as there were with the other "interstellar" spacecraft? This has all been discussed in early NH threads. It will have the fastest launch, but won't catch the Voyagers, because they received greater gravity assists than NH will (Saturn, mainly). There is no plaque dedicted to alien readership, although anyone finding the spacecraft could obviously glean a lot of information about its origin and creators. For a very long time from now, the trajectory of the craft would point unambiguously back to our solar system. |
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Jan 13 2006, 07:29 PM
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QUOTE (JRehling @ Jan 13 2006, 06:49 PM) This has all been discussed in early NH threads. It will have the fastest launch, but won't catch the Voyagers, because they received greater gravity assists than NH will (Saturn, mainly). There is no plaque dedicted to alien readership, although anyone finding the spacecraft could obviously glean a lot of information about its origin and creators. For a very long time from now, the trajectory of the craft would point unambiguously back to our solar system. Thanks for the info - I should have done a search before posting. (I'm on here a lot, but almost exclusively in the Mars rovers area, so I haven't been keeping up with the New Horizons posts until very recently.) |
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Jan 18 2006, 09:04 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
New Horizons should have at least had one of these affixed to it:
http://www.earthbounddog.com/ BTW, I once read that the builders of Pioneer 10 and 11, TRW, have guaranteed to repair the probes free of charge should they ever be returned to Earth. Does NH have a similar warranty? -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jan 19 2006, 09:35 PM
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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 18 2006, 09:04 PM) I gave my parents a set of those some years ago. |
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Jan 19 2006, 09:51 PM
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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 18 2006, 01:04 PM) Except the pulsar location diagram is missing the time base pictogram so the aliens won't be able to interpret the rotation of the pulsars in the diagram. If you are abducted and are lost, they won't be able to find your home. |
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