New Horizons: Pre-launch, launch and main cruise, Pluto and the Kuiper belt |
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New Horizons: Pre-launch, launch and main cruise, Pluto and the Kuiper belt |
 Jan 24 2014, 01:55 PM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173  |
To be clear, it will happen *if* HST approves the search time request when they get it.
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Jan 24 2014, 06:31 PM
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 Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
Would Spitzer warm mission be useful for surveys as well? I think it can cover ~2x the FOV the ACS can on Hubble. Of course, it is different wavelengths.
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
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Jan 24 2014, 07:14 PM
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No, Spitzer doesn't go nearly faint enough. Nor does any other spacecraft but Hubble.
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Jan 24 2014, 07:20 PM
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Feb 4 2014, 01:45 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 124 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 291 |
One year from now (+/- a few weeks) NH will begin its observation campaign of Pluto!
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Feb 5 2014, 11:52 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 102 Joined: 8-August 12 Member No.: 6511 |
So here's an odd coincidence: NH will cross the orbit of Neptune on August 24 -- one day before the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Voyager flyby.
Doug M. |
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Feb 6 2014, 12:23 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Check out the exact time Doug M...it could be august 25th somewhere on Earth...
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Feb 7 2014, 12:31 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
QUOTE (climber @ Feb 6 2014, 12:23 PM)  Check out the exact time Doug M...it could be august 25th somewhere on Earth... Correct, on the anniversary to the day, 25 yrs later. NH will be having a press event that day at NASA HQ with Voyager project scientist Ed stone handing the baton of exploration off to us. Be there or be square. -Alan |
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Feb 7 2014, 12:56 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
And NH will encounter Pluto on the 50th anniversary of Mariner 4's closest approach to Mars. How exactly did you persuade all these planets to line up for you like this, Alan?
 
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Feb 7 2014, 01:08 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
Err, friends in high places? ;-)
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Feb 7 2014, 01:14 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
(Note to self: Do not EVER tick off Alan Stern….)
-------------------- 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 7 2014, 06:52 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2084 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Speaking of, a new (particularly poignant) PI Perspective:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/overview/piPerspective.php Might want to fix up that third to last sentence though: an html glitch? |
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Feb 7 2014, 06:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1582 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
Quick snippet from Cassini status:
QUOTE Wednesday, Jan. 29 (DOY 029)
The Cassini navigation team used the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) to take six "optical navigation" images of Pluto for the benefit of the New Horizons Mission, which will execute a fast flyby of the icy dwarf planet and its satellites one year from this July. |
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Feb 11 2014, 02:10 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 25-January 14 Member No.: 7110 |
QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jan 24 2014, 03:03 AM) The Decadal Survey that recommended this mission very clearly stated that the KBO flybys were as important as Pluto and called the mission Pluto Kuiper Belt (PKB). As to getting a KBO or two to explore, its easily done from Hubble which can go fainter and avoid the weather/seeing problems that we've had with groundbased telescopes. We plan to propose to HST soon. I'm extremely hopeful the HST proposal will get approved, esp. since it's so highly valued by the Survey. Best of luck. |
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Apr 19 2014, 03:33 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2084 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Pluto and Charon are already visible as pixels from NH, so I'm assuming there's several reasons LORRI itself can't be used in the search in a worst case scenario?
KBOs will be small, increasingly slow downlink rates, taking time away from other encounter preparations, etc? |
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