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Posted on 12/31/18 at 9:46 pm to DavidTheGnome
New Horizons site
The New Horizons team used the Hubble Space Telescope to search for the next Kuiper Belt object to fly by after Pluto. Using observations made with Hubble on June 26, 2014, the science team discovered an object that New Horizons could reach with its available fuel. The object was subsequently designated 2014 MU69, given the minor planet number 485968, and based on public votes, nicknamed "Ultima Thule", which means "beyond the known world".
The New Horizons team used the Hubble Space Telescope to search for the next Kuiper Belt object to fly by after Pluto. Using observations made with Hubble on June 26, 2014, the science team discovered an object that New Horizons could reach with its available fuel. The object was subsequently designated 2014 MU69, given the minor planet number 485968, and based on public votes, nicknamed "Ultima Thule", which means "beyond the known world".
Posted on 1/1/19 at 12:46 am to DavidTheGnome
just tuned into this. Very cool!! Thanks for posting!
An original image, left, and an adjusted one recorded on Sunday by cameras aboard the New Horizons spacecraft as it approached the object nicknamed Ultima Thule.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
An original image, left, and an adjusted one recorded on Sunday by cameras aboard the New Horizons spacecraft as it approached the object nicknamed Ultima Thule.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Posted on 1/1/19 at 12:55 am to weagle99
I hope it doesn’t bump into any debris in the Kuiper Belt. That butterfly effect could be off the chain.
Posted on 1/1/19 at 12:58 am to JPinLondon
Seems legit.
Posted on 1/1/19 at 12:58 am to weagle99
Space is fake.
-The Christians
-The Christians
Posted on 1/1/19 at 6:38 am to Fourteen28
You are dumb.
- The entire earth.
- The entire earth.
Posted on 1/1/19 at 10:31 am to weagle99
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10:28 am EST today, New Horizons made its pre-programed “phone home,” letting the mission team back on Earth know that the craft completed the flyby unharmed. This call didn't include any information about the object, but later today the first science data and imagery of the far-out space rock will be available. At 3:15 pm EST, the first science data will arrive from the craft, including a grainy image just 100 pixels across. "
Posted on 1/1/19 at 10:32 am to weagle99
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The vast separation between New Horizons and Earth, coupled with the probe's small, 15-watt transmitter, mean data rates are glacial, however. They top out at 1 kilobit per second. To retrieve all of the imagery stored on the probe is therefore expected to take until September 2020. "
Posted on 1/1/19 at 10:35 am to Eli Goldfinger
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I hope it doesn’t bump into any debris in the Kuiper Belt. That butterfly effect could be off the chain.
Density is far too low, mostly empty space out there.
Posted on 1/1/19 at 10:36 am to weagle99
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mean data rates are glacial, however. They top out at 1 kilobit per second.
Oh, they use AT&T, too?
Posted on 1/1/19 at 12:51 pm to weagle99
Image of Ultima Thule. Will be much clearer tomorrow:
It is shaped like a bowling pin and spinning like a propeller.
It is shaped like a bowling pin and spinning like a propeller.
This post was edited on 1/1/19 at 12:52 pm
Posted on 1/1/19 at 1:00 pm to weagle99
How sharp do they expect the best images to be? Pluto flyby quality?
Considering how small it is and how fast New Horizons was booking, not to mention doing all of this more or less on the fly after leaving Pluto, it's incredible getting anything at all
Considering how small it is and how fast New Horizons was booking, not to mention doing all of this more or less on the fly after leaving Pluto, it's incredible getting anything at all
Posted on 1/1/19 at 1:05 pm to weagle99
Posted on 1/1/19 at 1:06 pm to Walking the Earth
Plus it seems like it’d be dark way out there
Posted on 1/1/19 at 1:06 pm to 91TIGER
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I have that book.
Posted on 1/1/19 at 1:12 pm to beerJeep
Well it’s not like they have high speed in deep space.....it’s dial up all over again.
First high resolution image is expected to take till February to load.
All of the scientific data will take till September of 2020 or so to load.
I think they just have a kilobyte/sec
ETA:beaten to it
First high resolution image is expected to take till February to load.
All of the scientific data will take till September of 2020 or so to load.
I think they just have a kilobyte/sec
ETA:beaten to it
This post was edited on 1/1/19 at 1:13 pm
Posted on 1/1/19 at 1:14 pm to biglego
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Plus it seems like it’d be dark way out there
That's what i was wondering. Where will the light come from for us to see what it looks like? Unless they use infrared or something.
Posted on 1/1/19 at 1:17 pm to Walking the Earth
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How sharp do they expect the best images to be? Pluto flyby quality?
They are expecting the best images to be better than Pluto.
It is amazing they were able to predict the shape of this thing using telescopes on Earth.
Posted on 1/1/19 at 1:18 pm to biglego
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Plus it seems like it’d be dark way out there
The sun on Pluto looked kinda like a full moon. So my guess is the sun is about half as bright at Ultima Thule?
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