New Horizons, Pluto and the Kuiper belt |
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New Horizons, Pluto and the Kuiper belt |
 Dec 22 2010, 10:08 PM
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New PI Perspective, (what a coincidence about Uranus orbit crossing and MESSENGER!):
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/overview/piPerspec...tive_12_17_2010 -------------------- To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary... Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre. -Giordano Bruno, 1584.
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Dec 23 2010, 02:00 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 905 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Have any of the original core mission team died ?
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Dec 23 2010, 08:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1008 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Dec 22 2010, 02:08 PM)  (what a coincidence about Uranus orbit crossing and MESSENGER Alan reported this and a number of other interesting coincidences about three years ago. http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=111614 Another coincidence is that Dawn's nominal end of mission is July 2015, right when NH should be at Pluto. --Greg |
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Dec 25 2010, 01:17 AM
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QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Dec 23 2010, 12:06 PM) Another coincidence is that Dawn's nominal end of mission is July 2015, right when NH should be at Pluto. So one mission at a dwarf planet ends while another one begins. Err, kinda.  -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
http://human-spaceflight.blogspot.com |
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Dec 26 2010, 03:25 PM
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About two hours ago New Horizons crossed the magical border. New Horizons is now less than 2 000 000 000 kilometers from Pluto.
New Horizons Timer
Daniel Muller's New Horizons Real-Time Simulation
Only 2 000 000 000 kilometres ! -------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html |
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Dec 26 2010, 03:27 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3534 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
What is so special about this or indeed any other such "magical" number?
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Dec 26 2010, 03:35 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 521 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Poland Member No.: 299 |
Ok, round number, no magical number.
-------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html |
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Jan 4 2011, 03:15 PM
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QUOTE (peter59 @ Dec 26 2010, 03:35 PM) Ok, round number, no magical number. As of Sunday, New Horizons is awake and proceeding nominally through the early portions of its hibernation wake up and HGA precession maneuver. |
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Jan 4 2011, 03:30 PM
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QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jan 4 2011, 07:15 AM) As of Sunday, New Horizons is awake and proceeding nominally through the early portions of its hibernation wake up and HGA precession maneuver. I think a lot of us felt that way on Monday after the holidays Alan. I know it'll probably take a few more days before my HGA is pointing correctly. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Jan 4 2011, 05:05 PM
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QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Jan 4 2011, 03:30 PM) I think a lot of us felt that way on Monday after the holidays Alan. I know it'll probably take a few more days before my HGA is pointing correctly. :-) |
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Jan 19 2011, 08:21 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1147 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
from the latest NH twitter
QUOTE Thinking waaay ahead, the NH team is studing an extended mission to follow on KB explorations with a deep heliosphere mission untill 2040! Alan, we want details!!!! -------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Jan 19 2011, 11:06 PM
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Yes!
This is in what I'm secretly hoping from beginning of this mission. Some new estimations about power availability in this time horizon (~2040)? -------------------- |
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Jan 20 2011, 12:19 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1101 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Seattle Member No.: 530 |
May be new estimations of instrument and spacecraft power consumption, too
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Jan 20 2011, 06:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1147 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
another interesting tweet posted yesterday
QUOTE Did you know? NH has observed Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, & 2 big KBOs (Makemake and Haumea) using our LORRI camera? I don't expect them to be particularly exciting, but does anybody know when Makemake and Haumea obs were made? -------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Jan 20 2011, 07:27 PM
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That is what is nice about being at the New Horizon's STM meeting. Both sets were taken on October 6, 2007. The Haumea set has yet to be fully analyzed.
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