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 |
Feb 3 2012, 05:55 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Well done all so far. Spread the word to your friends.
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/20120201.php Note: We probably don't need everyone to post just to say that they have signed up. |
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Feb 5 2012, 03:16 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 17-March 05 Member No.: 206 |
Anyone else find it incredible that Pluto, one of the smallest major bodies of the solar system, has possibly 6 moons? What a complex system. It looks more and more that Pluto was whacked pretty hard at one point.
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Feb 5 2012, 07:44 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
True. It will be most interesting (and revealing) if Pluto has a whopping big crater like Vesta.
-------------------- 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 5 2012, 10:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 655 Joined: 22-January 06 Member No.: 655 |
Anyone else find it incredible that Pluto, one of the smallest major bodies of the solar system, has possibly 6 moons? What a complex system. It looks more and more that Pluto was whacked pretty hard at one point. I suppose it has a lot to do with Pluto's Hill-sphere being immense (compared to everything inside Jupiter of course) |
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Feb 11 2012, 02:22 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
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Feb 11 2012, 05:12 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 655 Joined: 22-January 06 Member No.: 655 |
My anticipation's really building on the mission now - strange to think it's over half-way (in duration) and we're still 10 AU's out from the prime target.
I'm really really looking forward to that time where LORRI images exceed the resolution of Hubble, and landforms start to come into focus. Congrats to Alan and team for lobbying so hard for the mission, and not taking no for an answer - I'm sure we don't know the half of what it took to make NH fly. P.S. How's the moon count going?? |
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Feb 17 2012, 07:28 PM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
Chmee,
I wouldn't be surprised if every large KBO in Pluto's class has a multiple-moon system. There just isn't enough stuff out there to perturb small moons enough to cause them to impact or escape. -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Mar 8 2012, 01:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1578 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
https://twitter.com/#!/NewHorizons2015/...141884639129600
QUOTE Hot news:!The Hubble Space Telescope will help New Horizons by searching hard for hazards like rings & moons. How many will Hubble find? https://twitter.com/#!/NewHorizons2015/...140593523306498 QUOTE Hurray for the HST Project for awarding New Horizons with 34 orbits of Hubble time to search for hazards around Pluto this summer!
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Apr 10 2012, 08:38 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 23-June 09 From: Leyland U.K. Member No.: 4834 |
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Apr 13 2012, 01:34 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 94 Joined: 22-May 08 From: Loughborough Member No.: 4121 |
Called in the local yesterday and found a new beer for sale Something to drink it from http://www.cafepress.com/+gale_crater_mars...stein,558114034 |
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Jul 10 2012, 09:45 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Nice presentation from the current SBAG meeting:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/meetings/jul2...r_NH_Status.pdf Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Jul 10 2012, 10:56 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Wow. Thanks, Phil.
The collision hazard really seems to be taking center stage now with all the moon discoveries. Presumably the best way to see what's going on out there in advance is IR mapping of the system looking for dust & rings. Given the very low level of solar heating out there plus probable large uncertainties in putative dust/particle composition(s), what instruments are truly optimized (in terms of target IR wavelengths) for this search, if any? Shame that SOFIA's in the middle of a maintenance cycle; that would've been my first choice. -------------------- 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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Jul 11 2012, 05:48 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2917 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Nice to note that last TCM could be performed as late as 10 million kms from Pluto allowing more time to understand hazards around Pluto system... may be even using LORRI?
Knowing the high priority to keep the spacecraft safe, I guess we'll have less trajectory choices for next KBO encounters ? -------------------- |
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Jul 11 2012, 07:34 AM
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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 |
just announced in the IAU circulars: yet another satellite of Pluto!
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Jul 11 2012, 03:07 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 293 Joined: 29-August 06 From: Columbia, MD Member No.: 1083 |
Any news on the orbit of P5? I can't find anything online yet.
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