NH Arrokoth (formerly Ultima Thule) Encounter Observations & Results, post-flyby discussion as the data arrives |
NH Arrokoth (formerly Ultima Thule) Encounter Observations & Results, post-flyby discussion as the data arrives |
Jan 4 2019, 01:16 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
This will be where we talk about the data as it arrives over the next 20 months or so.
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Jan 6 2019, 02:40 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 80 Joined: 18-October 15 From: Russia Member No.: 7822 |
Just made it a little smoother
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Jan 6 2019, 11:30 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1276 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
Can we expect more images by Friday 11th?
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Jan 7 2019, 07:40 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 716 Joined: 3-January 08 Member No.: 3995 |
Which areas of Ultima Thule got the highest resolution coverage?
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Jan 7 2019, 03:39 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Posts concerning the search for a new target after Ultima Thule moved to the KBO Encounters thread.
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Jan 7 2019, 04:05 PM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
New Horizons is in solar conjunction, I think new data will be arriving next week
http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-...w-horizons.html https://spacenews.com/new-horizons-complete...f-ultima-thule/ QUOTE The science team will work with those data this week, then take a break next week when the spacecraft is in solar conjunction, with the sun blocking communications with the spacecraft. The science team will reconvene around Jan. 15, Stern said, after communications resume.
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Jan 7 2019, 10:29 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1374 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Which areas of Ultima Thule got the highest resolution coverage? They did not release that information. They took one stripe of images as they did the closest flyby. Assuming it was a horizontal shot across the "center" some of Ultima ( the big lobe ), might be imaged, bearing in mind when the load was sent up they did not fully know the shape or spin rate. |
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Jan 7 2019, 11:46 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
The LORRI field of view in the highest-resolution "CA06" LORRI images is just a bit bigger than the size of the target, so with luck we could get the whole thing. The relatively slow rotation means that we'll cover much the same face as seen in the images already down, though of course from a somewhat different angle.
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Jan 8 2019, 08:18 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 25-December 18 Member No.: 8512 |
New Horizons is in solar conjunction, I think new data will be arriving next week There was one more DSN downlink from NH received right after the last news conference, but that may have been mostly engineering data -- hard to tell. (DSN Now was being flakey during that - hopefully the DSN itself wasn't, and the download went OK.) |
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Jan 10 2019, 04:11 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 205 Joined: 14-April 06 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 745 |
Canberra is listening and talking to New Horizons according to DSN Now.
(Rubs his hands impatiently) |
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Jan 10 2019, 12:19 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 137 Joined: 16-June 15 Member No.: 7507 |
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Jan 11 2019, 10:16 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
An excellent article was just posted by the NH team about Ultima-Thule :
"Overview of initial results from the reconnaissance flyby of a Kuiper Belt planetesimal: 2014 MU69" https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02578 CONGRATULATIONS again to the NH team ftr this incredible feat ! |
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Jan 11 2019, 05:52 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 8-June 04 Member No.: 80 |
Does anyone know when the next press conference will be or if it has been scheduled?
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Jan 12 2019, 09:50 AM
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An excellent article was just posted by the NH team about Ultima-Thule : "Overview of initial results from the reconnaissance flyby of a Kuiper Belt planetesimal: 2014 MU69" https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02578 CONGRATULATIONS again to the NH team ftr this incredible feat ! QUOTE Little significant color variegation across either lobe has been detected as of this writing There's a new word I learned today - variegation. Excited to hear all this information (however preliminary) coming in from the mission. Glad they picked up on the colour variation near the "neck". -------------------- Curiosity rover panoramas: http://www.facebook.com/CuriosityRoverPanoramas
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Jan 13 2019, 09:47 AM
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