Pluto's Expanding Atmosphere Confounds Researchers, Pluto Atomosphere |
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 Apr 19 2011, 08:26 PM
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Pluto's Expanding Atmosphere Confounds Researchers
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011...onf.html?ref=hp Could these be evidence of geyers like on Triton? |
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Apr 21 2011, 10:18 AM
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may someone with some time to spare and Pluto and Charon masses and distance at hand compute where the L1 lagrangian point would lie?
I was thinking: how much would the atmosphere of Pluto need to inflate before mass transfer to Charon begins? this is what happens on some classes of double stars including some kinds of supernovae -------------------- 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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bagelverse Pluto's Expanding Atmosphere Confounds Researchers Apr 19 2011, 08:26 PM
tasp Interesting.
A tenuous atmosphere extending almos... Apr 19 2011, 11:53 PM
Greg Hullender QUOTE (tasp @ Apr 19 2011, 04:53 PM) Just... Apr 21 2011, 04:40 AM
Den QUOTE (tasp @ Apr 20 2011, 12:53 AM) A te... Apr 21 2011, 10:08 AM Paolo see also the paper Discovery of carbon monoxide in... Apr 20 2011, 05:12 AM brellis This is fascinating stuff! The Pluto system is... Apr 20 2011, 10:41 AM Floyd QUOTE (brellis @ Apr 20 2011, 05:41 AM) W... Apr 20 2011, 11:30 PM machi This idea is theoretically possible (you must ... Apr 20 2011, 12:39 PM Drkskywxlt Pluto's atmosphere is (almost certainly) hydro... Apr 20 2011, 01:32 PM Rob Pinnegar QUOTE (Drkskywxlt @ Apr 20 2011, 06:32 AM... Apr 21 2011, 12:39 AM Drkskywxlt QUOTE (Rob Pinnegar @ Apr 20 2011, 08:39 ... Apr 21 2011, 12:47 PM Rob Pinnegar QUOTE (Drkskywxlt @ Apr 21 2011, 05:47 AM... Apr 22 2011, 03:39 AM AndyG QUOTE (Drkskywxlt @ Apr 20 2011, 02:32 PM... Apr 21 2011, 10:03 AM Drkskywxlt QUOTE (AndyG @ Apr 21 2011, 06:03 AM) And... Apr 21 2011, 12:35 PM nprev That sort of begs the question of whether Pluto ha... Apr 21 2011, 12:45 AM AndyG I get L1 for Pluto lying around 5050km from the ce... Apr 21 2011, 11:30 AM Paolo QUOTE (AndyG @ Apr 21 2011, 01:30 PM) I g... Apr 21 2011, 05:24 PM Greg Hullender QUOTE (AndyG @ Apr 21 2011, 04:30 AM) I g... Apr 22 2011, 04:57 AM Paolo QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Apr 22 2011, 06:5... Apr 22 2011, 05:19 AM Alan Stern QUOTE (Paolo @ Apr 22 2011, 06:19 AM) tha... Apr 22 2011, 12:49 PM AndyG QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Apr 22 2011, 05:5... Apr 22 2011, 09:36 PM brellis I'm confused. Does the L1 point of the Pluto s... Apr 21 2011, 10:41 PM nprev Yes, it does; just like the Earth-Moon Lagrange po... Apr 21 2011, 11:15 PM Paolo thanks Alan. I know I will spend a large part of t... Apr 22 2011, 06:42 PM Greg Hullender So Andy and I worked through this offline, and we ... Apr 29 2011, 02:57 AM AndyG Never too keen on terms to the fifth power, and al... May 1 2011, 07:01 PM Greg Hullender Grin. Terms in the denominator are just as bad as ... May 2 2011, 01:39 AM tasp My thanks to the folks who can do the math. I am ... May 3 2011, 07:05 PM algorimancer It was studying the mathematics of space travel th... May 4 2011, 04:56 PM |
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