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Bravo New Horizons!
Post by Larry   » Tue Jul 14, 2015 9:18 pm

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Every so often a little piece of science fact eats into science fiction. Today we see a part of the solar system we have only seen as a spot of light, and glimpsed in the imaginations of science fiction authors. The New Horizons spacecraft has required Earth and has just transmitted its status as all green and chock full of data. Tomorrow will begin to see the most detailed images of our ninth planet (dwarf or not it's still a planet)
Congrats to the New Horizons team.

And who knows, the spacecraft is still alive and kicking, we may yet see pictures and data from more Kuiper belt objects.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sc ... 6oct_kbos/

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Re: Bravo New Horizons!
Post by Hutch   » Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:23 am

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Agreed, and having seen some of the photos to date...wow.

And I heard yesterday that some of the Ashes of Clyde Tombaugh (the astronomer who discovered Pluto), were put aboard Deep Horizons, so that he could, in a rather existensial way, visit the planet he had discovered.

And I thought that was pretty cool.

Added Factoid: You can see the location and the actual telescope Tombaugh used at the Lowell Observatory in Flaggstaff, Arizona
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Re: Bravo New Horizons!
Post by Charybdis   » Tue Jul 21, 2015 7:53 pm

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A true Day of Significance, for now Humanity has taken a close-look / flyby of all of the originally discovered 9 planets. What still lies beyond within the Kuiper belt and even farther in the Oort Cloud remains to be seen. Dwarf Planet or Planet (I favor the latter), for 75+ years it was the last of Sol's known children and now we have paid the visit.
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Re: Bravo New Horizons!
Post by viciokie   » Tue Jul 21, 2015 10:27 pm

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Charybdis wrote:A true Day of Significance, for now Humanity has taken a close-look / flyby of all of the originally discovered 9 planets. What still lies beyond within the Kuiper belt and even farther in the Oort Cloud remains to be seen. Dwarf Planet or Planet (I favor the latter), for 75+ years it was the last of Sol's known children and now we have paid the visit.


I would prefer it to be in ordit around Pluto or Ceres so as to resolve the egnimas they have discovered so far.
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Re: Bravo New Horizons!
Post by Charybdis   » Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:08 am

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viciokie wrote:
Charybdis wrote:A true Day of Significance, for now Humanity has taken a close-look / flyby of all of the originally discovered 9 planets. What still lies beyond within the Kuiper belt and even farther in the Oort Cloud remains to be seen. Dwarf Planet or Planet (I favor the latter), for 75+ years it was the last of Sol's known children and now we have paid the visit.


I would prefer it to be in ordit around Pluto or Ceres so as to resolve the egnimas they have discovered so far.


Wow, you don't ask for a lot, do you! For an orbiter mission, the spacecraft has to be going slow enough to have its on-board fuel slow it to orbital speed. Its computers have to be smart enough to do the orbital insertion without guidance from Earth due to the communication lag. Yes, Ceres is far easier to do this with than Pluto, but both are very significant risk missions.
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Re: Bravo New Horizons!
Post by HB of CJ   » Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:41 pm

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I also think it is very cool and neat that mass and cubic was reserved for very small bits of important pieces from mankind. It declares who we are.

Is there a chance that a very long time from now this very tiny spacecraft will be detected by somebodies sensor net, gathered up and closely examined?
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Re: Bravo New Horizons!
Post by George J. Smith   » Mon Aug 03, 2015 9:08 am

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viciokie wrote:
Charybdis wrote:A true Day of Significance, for now Humanity has taken a close-look / flyby of all of the originally discovered 9 planets. What still lies beyond within the Kuiper belt and even farther in the Oort Cloud remains to be seen. Dwarf Planet or Planet (I favor the latter), for 75+ years it was the last of Sol's known children and now we have paid the visit.


I would prefer it to be in ordit around Pluto or Ceres so as to resolve the egnimas they have discovered so far.




The Dawn satellite is already in orbit around Ceres
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