Pluto flyby: New Horizons

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1340980084308668418

View: https://twitter.com/AlanStern/status/1340980084308668418

#PI_Daily TODAY (!!) @New_Horizons2015 begins a 10 day observing sequence to study five new, distant Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) with our onboard instruments, measuring their shapes, rotation periods, surface properties, and looking for their satellites. #Space #NASA #Science

 

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343187323526123520

View: https://twitter.com/plutoport/status/1343187323526123520

New Horizons currently sending TLM to Earth and all is well. Observations of newly discovered KBOs 2020KO11, P4856186, and 2020 KT11 have taken place as well as a look towards Voyager1. Next up: 2020KP11 and 2020KR11.

 

[FighterJock]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343187323526123520

View: https://twitter.com/plutoport/status/1343187323526123520

New Horizons currently sending TLM to Earth and all is well. Observations of newly discovered KBOs 2020KO11, P4856186, and 2020 KT11 have taken place as well as a look towards Voyager1. Next up: 2020KP11 and 2020KR11.

Good to hear that New Horizons is alive and well, also good news that it has discovered two new KBO's.

 

[Hobbes]

the wording's a bit ambiguous. Those KBOs were discovered from Earth: the Subaru telescope is doing a survey of possible targets for another New Horizons flyby. NH is doing followup observations.

 

[FighterJock]

the wording's a bit ambiguous. Those KBOs were discovered from Earth: the Subaru telescope is doing a survey of possible targets for another New Horizons flyby. NH is doing followup observations.

I did not know that the Subaru telescope was doing a survey for New Horizons to aid a possible future flyby, thanks Hobbes.

 

[Archibald]

I wonder if Alice Bowman has a David in her family...

 

[Flyaway]

Like Titan, Pluto’s atmosphere is hazy, but for a different reason

Simple organic ices dominate, rather than bigger organic molecules.

arstechnica.com

 

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343321074684071937

View: https://twitter.com/alanstern/status/1343321074684071937

#PI_Daily Did you know? @NewHorizons2015 is moving faster than both Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 and will overtake them in about 2217 (at ~640 AU) and 2118 (at ~340 AU), respectively! (1 AU=The distance from the Earth to the Sun, 93 million miles) #NASA #Science #Space

 

[FighterJock]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343321074684071937

View: https://twitter.com/alanstern/status/1343321074684071937

#PI_Daily Did you know? @NewHorizons2015 is moving faster than both Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 and will overtake them in about 2217 (at ~640 AU) and 2118 (at ~340 AU), respectively! (1 AU=The distance from the Earth to the Sun, 93 million miles) #NASA #Science #Space

Interesting, so in 2217 NewHorizons will become the new most distant man made object launched from Earth.

 

[Hobbes]

no. Voyager 1 and 2 are faster than New Horizons, Voyager 1 will remain the most distant man made object launched from Earth. There are some 'interstellar probe' studies which could result in a spacecraft that's much faster than the Voyagers (IIRC 2-4 times the speed was the goal).

 

[FighterJock]

no. Voyager 1 and 2 are faster than New Horizons, Voyager 1 will remain the most distant man made object launched from Earth. There are some 'interstellar probe' studies which could result in a spacecraft that's much faster than the Voyagers (IIRC 2-4 times the speed was the goal).

Oops, forgot about Voyager's 1 & 2 being faster, of course Voyager 1 had that massive kick out of the Solar System when it tried to get pictures of Titan.