New Horizons, Pluto and the Kuiper belt |
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 Sep 19 2011, 03:26 PM
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QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Sep 17 2011, 12:57 PM)  It has to do with the new moon discoveries they're making (it's an open secret that there's likely a couple more in the system beyond the four known -- Alan et al just won more Hubble time to confirm or deny this). I hope there's room to call one of them "Thanatos" (that's the Grim Reaper's name, by the way). As far as I can tell, there's no asteroid with this name -- which just amazes me. |
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Sep 20 2011, 12:07 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1008 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
That seems fitting, since Charon is already the god of taxes. (Sort of.) :-)
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Sep 21 2011, 12:22 AM
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Thank you, Alan. As always, if you need "Kodak moments" for the new trajectory, you know where to go!
-------------------- 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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Nov 10 2011, 01:29 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1154 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
the latest PI perspective http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/overview/piPerspective.php has details of the bail-out trajectory
-------------------- 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 1 2012, 07:11 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 420 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
New Horizons science team meeting, open to all who RSVP-- 19-20 January, @SwRI-Boulder. Contact Alan Stern.
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Jan 1 2012, 08:10 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 6501 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Wow. Thanks, Alan!
Will the team be posting any of the presentations online after the meeting's done? -------------------- 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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Jan 2 2012, 01:04 AM
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QUOTE (nprev @ Jan 1 2012, 08:10 PM) Wow. Thanks, Alan! Will the team be posting any of the presentations online after the meeting's done? Yes, or our web site wiki, but it's password protected owing to ITAR. |
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Jan 2 2012, 01:09 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 6501 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Ah.
 Understood, just had to ask; thanks!
-------------------- 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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Jan 20 2012, 09:07 PM
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-------------------- 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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Feb 2 2012, 12:22 AM
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Feb 3 2012, 12:13 AM
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QUOTE (Astro0 @ Feb 2 2012, 12:22 AM) Right on, and thanks! Have you told your friends on the web to sign too? And asked them to tell their friends? That's the way we get to 100,000! -And thanks again. |
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Feb 3 2012, 01:00 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 6501 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Done! And possibly a good sign: Had trouble getting to not only the NH site, but also the petition site. Heavy traffic?
-------------------- 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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Feb 3 2012, 01:29 AM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 906 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Signed up.
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Feb 3 2012, 02:39 AM
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Thanks for bringing this to light...rally 'round the signatures, I say...
-------------------- Ladies and Gentlemen, Sample Return...
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Feb 3 2012, 03:38 AM
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Onboard!
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