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2018 VG18 “Farout”, The most distant Solar System object ever observed |
Dec 17 2018, 10:01 PM
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"A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the Sun."
https://carnegiescience.edu/node/2428 “Farout” is at about 120 astronomical units, its brightness suggests that it is about 500 km in diameter (likely making it spherical) and it has a pinkish hue, a color generally associated with ice-rich objects. Very nice discovery. Regards Marc. |
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Mar 4 2019, 04:25 AM
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Code could be written to process those images. Most of the image processing code that's used today is very very heavily derived from the code written pre-Voyager
What's not working are the cameras and scan platforms on the spacecraft. They were turned off decades ago to save power to avoid browning out the spacecraft. |
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MarcF 2018 VG18 “Farout” Dec 17 2018, 10:01 PM
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