Updates NASA New Horizons Mission Updates

[fsci123]

Suddenly pluto looks like a cool place to have a inhabited settlement. If only fusion was perfected.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Four of the last five APODs (Astronomy Picture of the Day) have been related to New Horizons.
The excitement is palpable!

 

[Andy44]

So does anyone know how to start a clock widget for the time of closest approach? We're two days out!

 

[N_Molson]

Red Timer (tm, orb) ?

 

[C3PO]

Wow, even Charon is cool, tiny as it is!

It's roughly the size of Kerbin, so that was to be expected. :lol:

 

[Notebook]

BBC article including Jocelyn Bell.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33500681

 

[SiberianTiger]

A yesterday's portrait of my elder daughter with her Hew Horizons mission patch and her New Horizons name-sending-aboard certificate. :thumbup:

 

[orb]

Red Timer (tm, orb) ?

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[SiberianTiger]

I can't figure out, is that the flyby countdown bound to Earth or to Pluto?

 

[orb]

I think it's the time it will be at Pluto and not when the information about it will hit Earth.

 

[Notebook]

Looks like a shameless marketing trick, but it does have some info...

http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=3ddc609eb8b07e5817fc6d77b&id=969a96640e&e=e82ba240c8

N.

 

[Unstung]

:hmm:

Obviously their compositions are different, but I think Pluto and Mars look similar at that resolution.

 

[Notebook]

BBC article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33513905

New Horizons: Spacecraft data boosts Pluto's size

By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent

 

[jedidia]

So, can we make it a planet again now?

 

[Artlav]

Isn't it better be the King of Dwarf Planets rather than a dwarf among the regular planets?

 

[Thunder Chicken]

This is awesome. I remember the Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in 1989 distinctly. That was back when this sort of stuff actually made it onto the TV news in a fairly complete fashion, because you couldn't get it on the internet because the internet hadn't been invented yet. I was bummed that Pluto couldn't be observed due to the orbit (I forget whether Voyager 1 or 2 made a deviation in a previous encounter that precluded the Pluto encounter).

We finally made it to Pluto! Yay! Have a trouble-free encounter New Horizons

 

[jedidia]

Isn't it better be the King of Dwarf Planets rather than a dwarf among the regular planets?

A paraphrased Milton quote? very appropriate, considering we are talking about the God of the underworld :lol:

 

[SolarLiner]

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I see your Fly-by Red Timer(tm) and raise you the ETA of New Horizons images:

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[N_Molson]

A paraphrased Milton quote? very appropriate, considering we are talking about the God of the underworld

Agreed, anything past Neptune in our solar system is definitively some kind of hell. A freezing one.

According to Dante, the Ninth Circle of Hell (its inner core) is completely frozen, trapping its king and master :

"Satan is waist deep in ice, weeping tears from his six eyes, and beating his six wings as if trying to escape, although the icy wind that emanates only further ensures his imprisonment (as well as that of the others in the ring). Each face has a mouth that chews on a prominent traitor." (Canto XXXIV of Divine Comedy, Inferno, by Dante Alighieri)

Maybe we should not go there after all... :crystalball2:

 

[Quick_Nick]

https://www.google.com/doodles/new-horizons-pluto-flyby