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Pluto System Small Moons: NH Post-Encounter Phase, 1 Aug 2015- TBD
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post Dec 17 2015, 07:04 PM
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Pluto’s Moon Nix, Half Illuminated
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post Dec 19 2015, 09:24 PM
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The best two Nix images oriented as i understand it.

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post Dec 20 2015, 05:54 AM
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This might make Nix the most densely cratered terrain that we've seen on any world farther out than Saturn? Potentially interesting for establishing cratering rates.
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post Dec 20 2015, 09:18 AM
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Since more than one satellite of Pluto is thought to be a merger of two bodies, or possibly more. So at some point there might also have been a lot of smaller pieces flying around, in view of that I find the cratering of Nix to be more or less what to expect.
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post Dec 29 2015, 09:40 AM
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On several of the latest images quoted "Kerberos" there is another body seen below it :
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x636_sci_1.jpg (bottom of picture)
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x636_sci_1.jpg (middle right)
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post Feb 3 2016, 04:26 AM
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QUOTE (vikingmars @ Dec 29 2015, 04:40 AM) *
On several of the latest images quoted "Kerberos" there is another body seen below it :
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x636_sci_1.jpg (bottom of picture)
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x636_sci_1.jpg (middle right)
Another Pluto satellite ? Just a bright star ? smile.gif


I blew up the other body in the two images you mentioned and these are what came up.
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post May 13 2016, 06:45 PM
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Hydra's icy surface

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The new data – known as infrared spectra – show the unmistakable signature of crystalline water ice: a broad absorption from 1.50 to 1.60 microns and a narrower water-ice spectral feature at 1.65 microns. The Hydra spectrum is similar to that of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, which is also dominated by crystalline water ice. But Hydra’s water-ice absorption bands are even deeper than Charon’s, suggesting that ice grains on Hydra’s surface are larger or reflect more light at certain angles than the grains on Charon.


http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-s-icy-moon-hydra
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post Sep 11 2016, 11:41 PM
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This animation is based on two images of Nix and generated using morphing technology.
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post Sep 11 2016, 11:59 PM
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Fantastic, Roman! ohmy.gif


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post Sep 12 2016, 02:12 AM
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That is very impressive!


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post Sep 12 2016, 02:18 AM
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WOW!

I wonder what you achieve with a paperclip and gum!
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post Sep 13 2016, 09:07 PM
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This is awesome, especially when one keeps in mind that it is generated from only two images (looking at it without knowing I would have guessed it was generated from a greater number of images).
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post Dec 12 2016, 05:34 PM
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NIX MVIC PAN (N_PAN_CA) - 22 236 KM
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post Jan 24 2017, 09:33 PM
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During a previous epoch where Charon migrated away from Pluto, the minor satellites could have been trapped in orbital mean motion inclination resonances. An outward migrating Charon induces large variations in Nix and Styx's obliquities. The cause is a commensurability between the mean motion resonance frequency and the spin precession rate of the spinning body. As the minor satellites are near mean motion resonances, this mechanism could have lifted the obliquities of all four minor satellites. If so the high obliquities of Pluto and Charon's minor satellites imply that this system experienced orbital migration and all satellites were at one time captured into mean motion resonances.


https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05594
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