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Related: About this forumNew Horizons Pluto Probe to awaken from hibernation next month
From Space.com: http://www.space.com/27793-new-horizons-pluto-spacecraft-wakeup.html
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Another chance to do an all-nighter and pop some champagne in honor of New Horizons and the JPL team.
NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)I really look forward to learning about what is discovered!
gvstn
(2,805 posts)New Horizons took this footage as it raced through space to rendezvous with the dwarf planet. The footage shows Pluto and almost one full rotation of its largest moon, Charon, which orbits 11,200 miles (about 18,000km) above the dwarf planet's surface.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2834535/Almost-New-Horizons-probe-ready-wake-call-approaches-Pluto-historic-encounter-dwarf-planet.html
tclambert
(11,080 posts)Which makes another mystery.
trotsky
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(5,749 posts)byronius
(7,369 posts)We live in interesting times.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,593 posts)Surface area of Pluto in square miles: 6,427,806
Surface area of Russia in square miles: 6,601,668
Number of times Pluto orbited the sun while classified as a planet: 0.
Russia is bigger than Pluto.
The fact that we can travel these extreme distances to something so small, on point, is amazing.
http://t.space.com/all/18566-pluto-distance#3
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Math is real!!!!
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Hoppy
(3,595 posts)They are legion.
They do not forget.
NASA, be very afraid.
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)reACTIONary
(5,749 posts)...the International Astronomical Union. (An evil international conspiracy!!!)
reACTIONary
(5,749 posts)RE:Another chance to do an all-nighter and pop some champagne in honor of New Horizons and the JPL team
That's APL (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory), not JPL! As a proud member of the New Horizons team and an employee of APL, I'm a bit sensitive about atribution. The PI, Alan Stern, is with SWRI, and NH is a joint venture between APL and SWRI.
GO New Horizons!!!
LongTomH
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(5,749 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)It's about time we know what a Kuiper Belt object actually looks like!