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[infocat13]

UMSFers-- New Horizons Reddit AMA tomorrow!

I am in class at that hour so my question would be, after course correction maneuvers for a post Pluto encounter where will New Horizons and its third stage motor be hundreds of thousands of years or more from now?

[MahFL]

The LORRI image release for today is up at :

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-A...p?page=20150204

[JohnVV]

Indeed & sigh, we're getting the white spot on Ceres things all over again,

No kidding !

for the month of April

12.04: 551 km/px - Pluto 4 pixels across, Charon 2 pixels
13.04: 545 km/px - Pluto 4 pixels across, Charon 2 pixels
14.04: 539 km/px - Pluto 4 pixels across, Charon 2 pixels
15.04: 533 km/px - Pluto 5 pixels across, Charon 2 pixels
16.04: 528 km/px - Pluto 5 pixels across, Charon 2 pixels
17.04: 522 km/px - Pluto 5 pixels across, Charon 2 pixels
18.04: 516 km/px - Pluto 5 pixels across, Charon 2 pixels
19.04: 514 km/px - Pluto 5 pixels across, Charon 2 pixels

the darn thing is ONLY!!!!! 4 px across
LESS!!! than Hubble images of 9 px

see
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakda...ns-science.html
this is supposed to be a rather SCIENTIFIC forum
( i tend to be way TOO artistic here and I am the one stating the scientific facts ?????? )

[4throck]

Second that.

It's an odd recent trend to see discussions going on based only on visual impressions of heavily processed images, disregarding the most basic numerical facts.
This is not some fancy maths, we are talking integer numbers here, stuff like 4 pixels < 9 pixels