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 Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:00 am Post subject: New Horizens |
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i got this off another forum i'm on.
Launched on January 19, the New Horizons spacecraft will be the first ever mission study Pluto in detail. Currently almost nothing is known about Pluto except for its relative size, temperature, and the fact that it has three moons. It is currently traveling at around 23 miles per second and within a few weeks it will pass my Mars' orbit and will finaly make it to Pluto in slightly over 9 years.
NewHorizons Website
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:15 am Post subject: |
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*blinks repeatedly* You're going to bring this back up in nine years and remind us of this, right Buff? I have to admit I'm intrigued by space exploration, but it takes a fat lot more patience than I have. I know they're not going to launch the craft and forget about it until it nears Pluto. They'll be relaying signals to it and collecting data the entire time, but nine years waiting for the real prize, and all the potential disasters that might bring their plans to ruination....I'd die of anxiety. It certainly took them long enough to decide to study Pluto. Well, cheers and good luck to them. I'll check back in nine years...if I remember that is.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:25 am Post subject: |
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ya right, me remember this in 9 years. give me a couple of weeks and i'll forget about it, unless people post in this. but it is interesting that they are finally checking out pluto. but dam why does it have to take 9 years.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:44 am Post subject: |
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I don't know. The spacecraft is fat and it's stopping over in Saturn for twinkies? You'd think they'd be faster by now. What's so great about Pluto anyway? Shouldn't that money be put to better use doing more research on Mars in case we need to escape there or something?
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:51 am Post subject: |
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| Phamex wrote: |
| I don't know. The spacecraft is fat and it's stopping over in Saturn for twinkies? You'd think they'd be faster by now. What's so great about Pluto anyway? Shouldn't that money be put to better use doing more research on Mars in case we need to escape there or something? |
Why not explore Pluto? It's the only "planet" in the Solar System that has not had a spacecraft built specifically for the purpose of exploring it. Every other picture of Pluto was taken from a few million miles away.
With the new objects being discovered in the Kuiper belt, we may as well take some time to explore the one that we've known about for a half-decade.
Besides, for Mars, we have all of this to look at.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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wonder when they'll actually send a team to explore mars.
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I think there's been talk about another manned mission to the moon. However, I don't think it'll actually happen for a while, especially with the problems with the space shuttles recently.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:34 am Post subject: |
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About God Damned Time. Considering they've cancelled Pluto probes before (We could have known this by now if they hadn't cancelled Pluto Express!), I wasn't holding my breath on this one. I'm so glad, though; considering we know so little about it and the best pictures we've gotten from it so far are from the Hubble, I think. (And even those aren't very good - This is the best, I think. It's a word lacking a bunch of information.
I'm shocked a the lack of news attention on this. People were all over Mars like a hot potatoe, and for this, seems there's been next to nada.
As a Scorpio, though, I'm kind of excited both of my birth planets are in vogue right now. :D
Pluto is my absolute favorite planet. <3 I can't wait to find out about it, and I'm excessively annoyed that the only topic that comes up about it is "Well it's not really a planet." (Yes, it is considered to be so. And considering there's, AFAIK, no standard definition on what a planet is, I see no reason for it to lose that status.)
It's weird to think I won't know more about Pluto until I'm around 30, though. (Assuming it reaches it's destination.)
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