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New Horizons space probe will fly by a kuiper belt object in a few days
Posted on 12/13/18 at 7:09 pm
Posted on 12/13/18 at 7:09 pm
There probably won’t be another deep space probe for decades.
Leader of mission says they have enough fuel to go until 2030 and will soon look for another object to explore.
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Leader of mission says they have enough fuel to go until 2030 and will soon look for another object to explore.
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One of the most ambitious projects in NASA's illustrious history is drawing to its climax as the New Horizons spacecraft nears the most distant asteroid in our Solar System.
It is expected to reach Ultima Thule on New Year's Day and will perform several flybys of the 25-mile long space rock one billion miles beyond Pluto.
Ultima Thule, formally known as 2014 MU69, got its name from a medieval term for anywhere beyond the known world.
The project has spent more than a decade hurtling through the Solar System since it launched on January 19, 2006 and passed Pluto in 2015.
New Horizons is so far adrift of planet Earth now that its messages take up to six hours to reach us, despite them travelling at the speed of light
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This post was edited on 12/13/18 at 7:11 pm
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Posted on 12/13/18 at 7:10 pm to weagle99
Posted on 12/13/18 at 7:11 pm to weagle99
Posted on 12/13/18 at 7:12 pm to weagle99
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New Horizons is so far adrift of planet Earth now that its messages take up to six hours to reach us, despite them travelling at the speed of light
Weird flex NASA, but okay.
Posted on 12/13/18 at 7:20 pm to weagle99
Voyager 2 has been in space longer than most on this site have been alive.
Posted on 12/13/18 at 7:26 pm to NotoriousFSU
quote:I wish this little internet saying would go the way of new horizons.
Weird flex, but okay.
Posted on 12/13/18 at 7:29 pm to weagle99
Can’t wait for this and highlights what was discussed in the three thrresd that true space exploration is achievable and being done via unmanned. Probes like this are what our focus should be, and be working on more efficient/affordable means to space as well.
Posted on 12/13/18 at 7:39 pm to weagle99
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will perform several flybys of the 25-mile long space rock one billion miles beyond Pluto.
As small as earth is in the vastness of the universe, how scientists can find something this small that for away is beyond my comprehension. Then have a man made object make several flybys is just unreal.
Posted on 12/13/18 at 7:57 pm to Nicky Parrish
The math required to accomplish this stuff is astounding.
Posted on 12/13/18 at 8:05 pm to Nicky Parrish
Whoever wrote that article is incorrect, it’s not making several flybys of it, just one. The probe is traveling far too fast to do anything other than zip by it.
Posted on 12/13/18 at 8:23 pm to weagle99
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kuiper belt
Named for baseball great Duane Kuiper.
Posted on 12/13/18 at 8:28 pm to weagle99
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kuiper
frick yea!
Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:25 am to weagle99
This is a really good example of just how massive space is. A billion miles past Pluto is only 6 light hours away. The nearest stars are in the neighborhood of 4-12 light years.
I think we are capable of stepping up our probe game at this point. Design a probe for flybys, using a propulsion system capable of accelerating it to relativistic speeds, say .2-.4 light speed, and send it to a really great candidate system with planets likely to be in Goldilocks zone. This could potentially mean only a travel time of 15-20 years, with added time for the years of data to come back. It’s just a shame that to boost a small probe to those speeds would mean it wouldn’t have much time to get data once it passes by.
I think we are capable of stepping up our probe game at this point. Design a probe for flybys, using a propulsion system capable of accelerating it to relativistic speeds, say .2-.4 light speed, and send it to a really great candidate system with planets likely to be in Goldilocks zone. This could potentially mean only a travel time of 15-20 years, with added time for the years of data to come back. It’s just a shame that to boost a small probe to those speeds would mean it wouldn’t have much time to get data once it passes by.
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