2018 VG18 “Farout”, The most distant Solar System object ever observed |
2018 VG18 “Farout”, The most distant Solar System object ever observed |
 Dec 17 2018, 10:01 PM
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"A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the Sun."
https://carnegiescience.edu/node/2428 “Farout” is at about 120 astronomical units, its brightness suggests that it is about 500 km in diameter (likely making it spherical) and it has a pinkish hue, a color generally associated with ice-rich objects. Very nice discovery. Regards Marc. |
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Mar 5 2019, 04:21 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Not gonna happen; there's nowhere near enough power capacity left, as Paolo said. Voyager is now exclusively a particles & fields mission for however much longer they last.
Moving on... -------------------- 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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MarcF 2018 VG18 “Farout” Dec 17 2018, 10:01 PM
scalbers Interesting - a similar albedo to Pluto (with the ... Dec 17 2018, 10:10 PM Holder of the Two Leashes He is a link to the Minor Planet Center's Elec... Dec 17 2018, 10:15 PM JohnVV for those Celestia users here is a SPICE orbit add... Jan 4 2019, 01:53 AM MarcF And after FarOut... FarFarOut:
https://www.space.c... Feb 28 2019, 08:35 AM
JRehling Am I the only one hoping that Voyager 2 is coincid... Mar 3 2019, 08:38 PM Steve5304 QUOTE (JRehling @ Mar 3 2019, 09:38 PM) A... Mar 4 2019, 03:20 AM tanjent While hoping for a coincidence of that magnitude, ... Mar 3 2019, 10:51 PM djellison Code could be written to process those images. Mo... Mar 4 2019, 04:25 AM Paolo turning back on the cameras, scan platform and the... Mar 4 2019, 08:25 AM Steve5304 QUOTE (Paolo @ Mar 4 2019, 09:25 AM) turn... Mar 4 2019, 11:30 PM |
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