New Horizons late cruise, 500 Millions kms - ~200 million kms |
New Horizons late cruise, 500 Millions kms - ~200 million kms |
Sep 1 2014, 07:25 PM
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Yes, Pluto's position is well known but there are alsways some pointing errors even though Cassini's pointing is amazingly accurate and stable compared to e.g. Voyager and Galileo. Cassini's trajectory is similarly amazingly accurate - apparently within 90 metres of planned position during the latest Titan flyby! |
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Sep 1 2014, 07:39 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 655 Joined: 22-January 06 Member No.: 655 |
Bookmarked - thanks!
Great to know we're invited along on the ride. Those images that finally start to exceed Hubble resolution will be phenomenal - I wonder what we'll see? |
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Sep 2 2014, 05:21 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
When the resolution gets down to about 100 km per pixel, it might look something like the maps David Tholin, Marc Buie and Keith Horne came up with and published in this paper:
Mutual Occutation Results Thanks to the work Tholin and others put into making those observations and deciphering the results, we already have a better look at one hemisphere of Pluto (and Charon) than Hubble can give us. I'm looking forward to seeing how well they match up to direct pictures from New Horizons. I'm expecting they'll match pretty well. |
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Sep 2 2014, 10:24 PM
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I read that Alan Stern showed an image at a recent event of New York City at the best resolution that New Horizons will achieve at Pluto. Does anyone have a link to this? My Google search failed. Thanks.
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Sep 2 2014, 10:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
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Sep 2 2014, 10:38 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 279 Joined: 19-August 07 Member No.: 3299 |
An interesting and detailed report about the comments of Alan Stern about the final preparations of New Horizons.
A mission to Pluto enters the home stretch “Beginning in May, we exceed Hubble resolution,” Stern said, a reference to the best images of Pluto taken to date. “It will get better week by week” through the July flyby. |
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Sep 3 2014, 01:41 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 45 Joined: 27-August 14 From: Private island on Titan Member No.: 7250 |
PBS better air a "Pluto All Night" special!
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Sep 3 2014, 03:50 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Given the bit-rate from that distance, it might have to be a "Pluto All Month"...
Actually, though, that's something I'm curious about--plans for public broadcast of the encounter. Alan, have you guys developed anything detailed on this yet? -------------------- 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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Sep 3 2014, 04:01 AM
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Given the bit-rate from that distance, it might have to be a "Pluto All Month"... Actually, though, that's something I'm curious about--plans for public broadcast of the encounter. Alan, have you guys developed anything detailed on this yet? Nick- In fact, we just started that discussion today. -Alan |
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Sep 3 2014, 11:53 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Outstanding!
Suggestion: You should invite noted space journalists & bloggers to participate; there are many such in the present amateur space enthusiast community! -------------------- 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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Sep 4 2014, 09:44 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
UMSF has been riding along with New Horizons since before she launched.
It's worth going back to page one of this thread and reading the first few posts. In fact read back through the 110+ pages as we followed the adventure. Thanks to Alan Stern for giving us his insights and feedback throughout the mission. I second Nick's suggestion. Maybe there's some good value of "space science's finest communicators" (many of them to be found here) getting a chance to share that unique moment in July next year. They can do some great outreach and best of all, they're free! |
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Sep 4 2014, 01:14 PM
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Sep 4 2014, 04:34 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
I should know better than to try to teach the teacher. Great, looking very much forward to the plans; thanks, Alan!
-------------------- 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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Sep 5 2014, 06:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
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Sep 8 2014, 02:52 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 17-April 08 From: Okemos, MI, USA Member No.: 4097 |
Debuting today! Pluto Picture of the Day (PPOD) Is there a PPoD archive? I got here a bit late and due to my busy job might not make it every day. (It seems like just yesterday when I had time to spend all day at my desk F5ing Where Is NH? until it crossed Lunar orbit.) |
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