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[djellison]

Just a quite post-sep thread to say congratulations to Alan and the team, here's to a clean checkout and small TCM's Many thanks for taking the time to share the experience to date with us here, your efforts are very much appreciated.

Doug

[Boxcarx]

I think it's amazing that people like Alan and his crew can put together such a mission and initiate it. I mean, there must only be a handful of people on this earth that have the technical knowledge to do that.

My question is that once the craft wakes up 6 months prior to the Pluto encounter, will it have time to take one or two pictures and send us a teaser image of Pluto? I think it'll drive me crazy to know that NH has a ton of images but we'll have to wait a few weeks before we can see any of them.

David

[Tom Tamlyn]

My question is that once the craft wakes up 6 months prior to the Pluto encounter, will it have time to take one or two pictures and send us a teaser image of Pluto?  I think it'll drive me crazy to know that NH has a ton of images but we'll have to wait a few weeks before we can see any of them.

Alan addressed this at the press conference. Observations from the approach will be transmitted to earth on a daily basis until shortly before the approach. If I recall correctly, 6 weeks before the encounter, NH images will supass the best that Hubble can do. So there should be lots of pictures of Pluto looming larger.

TTT

P.S. Alan also announced that some of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes are on board, as was surmised by many members here.

[ljk4-1]

P.S.  Alan also announced that some of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes are on board, as was surmised by many members here.

Wonderful news. I am glad to know that the first human to leave our Sol system for the larger Milky Way galaxy (in some form at least) will be Dr. Tombaugh. He certainly deserves the honor.

Does anyone have or know where images of the capsule holding his ashes can be found? Where were they placed on the probe? Did a commemorative plaque or other message accompany them?

And if NH is ever found by starfaring ETI or our descendants, perhaps they will also have the technology to analyze Dr. Tombaugh's remains to learn something about a representative sample of a Twentieth Century human being from Earth.

I did a Google search for the news, and this is the odd place I found it (scroll way down):

http://www.superbowl.com/news/story/9170836

Audio of Clyde's widow, Patricia, talking about her husband:

http://web.dailycamera.com/video/todd/Patr...-2006-01-15.mp3

And just to throw this in, interesting article from last May by Alan Stern explaining how he came up with the probe's final name of New Horizons:

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/369/1

Voyager 3 had actually been considered, but Voyager was a JPL project. They better start naming some other deep space probes Voyager 3 and so on, otherwise we won't have V'Ger to deal with in 300 years!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V'ger

[punkboi]

Wonderful news.  I am glad to know that the first human to leave our Sol system for the larger Milky Way galaxy (in some form at least) will be Dr. Tombaugh.  He certainly deserves the honor.

Does anyone have or know where images of the capsule holding his ashes can be found?  Where were they placed on the probe?  Did a commemorative plaque or other message accompany them?

And if NH is ever found by starfaring ETI or our descendants, perhaps they will also have the technology to analyze Dr. Tombaugh's remains to learn something about a representative sample of a Twentieth Century human being from Earth.

I did a Google search for the news, and this is the odd place I found it (scroll way down):

http://www.superbowl.com/news/story/9170836

It's gonna take Buffalo and Minnesota 2.1 billion years to win the Super Bowl?? I can't wait that long!!