New Horizons: Pre-launch, launch and main cruise, Pluto and the Kuiper belt |
New Horizons: Pre-launch, launch and main cruise, Pluto and the Kuiper belt |
Sep 19 2011, 03:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 2-July 05 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 426 |
It has to do with the new moon discoveries they're making (it's an open secret that there's likely a couple more in the system beyond the four known -- Alan et al just won more Hubble time to confirm or deny this). I hope there's room to call one of them "Thanatos" (that's the Grim Reaper's name, by the way). As far as I can tell, there's no asteroid with this name -- which just amazes me. |
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Sep 20 2011, 12:07 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
That seems fitting, since Charon is already the god of taxes. (Sort of.) :-)
--Greg |
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Sep 21 2011, 12:22 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Thank you, Alan. As always, if you need "Kodak moments" for the new trajectory, you know where to go!
-------------------- 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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Nov 10 2011, 01:29 PM
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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 |
the latest PI perspective http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/overview/piPerspective.php has details of the bail-out trajectory
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Jan 1 2012, 07:11 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
New Horizons science team meeting, open to all who RSVP-- 19-20 January, @SwRI-Boulder. Contact Alan Stern.
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Jan 1 2012, 08:10 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Wow. Thanks, Alan!
Will the team be posting any of the presentations online after the meeting's done? -------------------- 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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Jan 2 2012, 01:04 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
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Jan 2 2012, 01:09 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Ah. Understood, just had to ask; thanks!
-------------------- 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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Jan 20 2012, 09:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2082 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
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Feb 2 2012, 12:22 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
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Feb 3 2012, 12:13 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
Right on, and thanks! Have you told your friends on the web to sign too? And asked them to tell their friends? That's the way we get to 100,000! -And thanks again. |
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Feb 3 2012, 01:00 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Done! And possibly a good sign: Had trouble getting to not only the NH site, but also the petition site. Heavy traffic?
-------------------- 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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Feb 3 2012, 01:29 AM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Signed up.
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Feb 3 2012, 02:39 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 28-August 07 From: San Francisco Member No.: 3511 |
Thanks for bringing this to light...rally 'round the signatures, I say...
-------------------- 'She drove until the wheels fell off...'
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Feb 3 2012, 03:38 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 754 Joined: 9-February 07 Member No.: 1700 |
Onboard!
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