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A New Horizons Clone To 2003 Ub313?
SFJCody
post Dec 22 2005, 01:07 PM
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Pluto's current distance from the Sun: ~31AU
2003 UB313's current distance from the Sun ~97AU

Is an all chemical (no electric propulsion, solar sails, etc) mission to 2003 UB313 possible? I'm thinking of a travel time and spacecraft mass similar to New Horizons. Perhaps NASA's new Shuttle derived launch vehicle (payload capacity 125 metric tonnes to LEO) will be up to the task and could do this on a test flight.
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- SFJCody   A New Horizons Clone To 2003 Ub313?   Dec 22 2005, 01:07 PM
- - ugordan   A quick and dirty calculation shows that even with...   Dec 22 2005, 01:45 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (ugordan @ Dec 22 2005, 05:45 AM)A quic...   Dec 22 2005, 02:51 PM
||- - ugordan   QUOTE (JRehling @ Dec 22 2005, 03:51 PM)The V...   Dec 22 2005, 03:05 PM
|- - SFJCody   QUOTE (ugordan @ Dec 22 2005, 01:45 PM)EDIT: ...   Dec 22 2005, 06:40 PM
- - djellison   But, Maximum possible speed from a flyby, and the ...   Dec 22 2005, 03:00 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 22 2005, 04:00 PM)I...   Dec 22 2005, 03:20 PM
- - tasp   Pioneer 11 passed Jupiter at less than 30,000 KM. ...   Dec 22 2005, 03:30 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (tasp @ Dec 22 2005, 04:30 PM)Sending c...   Dec 22 2005, 04:14 PM
|- - tasp   QUOTE (ugordan @ Dec 22 2005, 10:14 AM)Yeah, ...   Dec 22 2005, 06:47 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (tasp @ Dec 22 2005, 07:47 PM)Not sure ...   Dec 22 2005, 07:02 PM
||- - abalone   QUOTE (ugordan @ Dec 23 2005, 06:02 AM)Isn...   Jan 9 2006, 01:54 PM
||- - ugordan   QUOTE (abalone @ Jan 9 2006, 02:54 PM)It is n...   Jan 9 2006, 02:09 PM
||- - abalone   QUOTE (ugordan @ Jan 10 2006, 01:09 AM)I thin...   Jan 9 2006, 02:29 PM
|- - SFJCody   QUOTE (tasp @ Dec 22 2005, 06:47 PM)Not sure ...   Dec 22 2005, 07:33 PM
|- - SFJCody   This is beginning to resemble the TAU (thousand as...   Dec 23 2005, 11:28 AM
||- - Comga   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Dec 23 2005, 05:28 AM)This i...   Dec 24 2005, 06:09 AM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Dec 22 2005, 08:33 PM)Why 45...   Jan 9 2006, 09:48 PM
|- - helvick   QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jan 9 2006, 10:48 PM)Smalle...   Jan 9 2006, 10:18 PM
|- - Ames   QUOTE (helvick @ Jan 9 2006, 11:18 PM)We...   Jan 16 2006, 10:30 AM
|- - ToSeek   QUOTE (Ames @ Jan 16 2006, 10:30 AM)Until we ...   Jan 16 2006, 07:37 PM
- - djellison   I doubt you could run any sort of Ion engine off n...   Dec 22 2005, 03:32 PM
- - um3k   One thing I would like to point out is that a miss...   Dec 22 2005, 03:49 PM
|- - SFJCody   QUOTE (um3k @ Dec 22 2005, 03:49 PM)One thing...   Dec 22 2005, 06:04 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Dec 22 2005, 07:04 PM)If New...   Dec 22 2005, 06:17 PM
||- - SFJCody   QUOTE (ugordan @ Dec 22 2005, 06:17 PM)...you...   Dec 22 2005, 06:25 PM
||- - ugordan   Then again, newer propulsion methods will probably...   Dec 22 2005, 06:35 PM
|- - Jyril   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Dec 22 2005, 09:04 PM)If 200...   Dec 22 2005, 06:42 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   This seems to be the type of mission that can ONLY...   Dec 24 2005, 01:45 AM
- - edstrick   The "Purple Pigeons of Planetology" Wish...   Dec 24 2005, 10:02 AM
- - ilbasso   At what angle and distance did Ulysses encounter J...   Dec 24 2005, 10:44 PM
- - Planet X   I was looking at the planetary orbits (as viewed f...   Jan 9 2006, 11:59 AM
- - djellison   Remember - MER rides most of it's DSN time on ...   Jan 16 2006, 08:29 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 16 2006, 08:29 PM)Of c...   Jan 16 2006, 08:35 PM
- - djellison   Ahh right - I just seem to remember them mentionin...   Jan 16 2006, 08:44 PM


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