3 moons!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0223_060223_pluto.html

2/25/2006 2:41:16 AM

Welcome to yesterday

2/25/2006 2:57:33 AM

who you represent?
i represent the smallest planet

2/25/2006 4:13:49 AM

A tourney in this journey
versus those who tried to ban it
if you don't agree go see interplanet Janet
cause the sun is star like Pluto is planet

2/25/2006 5:39:03 PM

it also might have rings.

2/25/2006 5:41:17 PM

Interplanet Janet, she's a galaxy girl,
A solar system Ms. from a future world

2/25/2006 5:42:01 PM

First probe to ever visit Pluto... THIS WEEK!
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/07/new-horizons-pluto-historic-kuiper-encounter/
countdown: http://seeplutonow.com/
New Horizons Closest Approach to Pluto: 7:49:57 a.m. EDT, July 14, 2015

(and I found it interesting... this thread was first posted about a month after New Horizons launched, and we have discovered several new moons of pluto since, upping the number to 5!)

[Edited on July 13, 2015 at 12:29 AM. Reason : ]

7/13/2015 12:28:31 AM

and it's a planet again so that's always excited

7/13/2015 12:14:24 PM

Quote :

"It’s still not a planet, but Pluto is bigger than experts thought. NASA reported on Monday that scientists on their New Horizons Mission have determined the size of Pluto. The former planet is 1,473 miles in diameter, slightly larger than previous estimates, making it the largest known object in the solar system beyond Neptune’s orbit."

http://time.com/3955948/pluto-larger-nasa/

7/13/2015 4:40:04 PM

Quote :

" making it the largest known object in the solar system beyond Neptune’s orbit"

That's not even saying much...

7/13/2015 9:35:52 PM

it was previously estimated that Eris was slightly larger than pluto. (now time to sent a probe to eris to confirm!)

7/13/2015 9:54:55 PM

It's a little bit complicated. Based on latest observations, Pluto is larger in diameter but smaller in mass than Eris.

7/14/2015 12:01:03 PM

so is this thing done or will it continue on past Pluto?

7/14/2015 1:43:40 PM

^from march

http://news.discovery.com/space/after-pluto-where-will-nasas-new-horizons-go-150320.htm

Quote :

"The New Horizons team ended up having to turn to the Hubble Space Telescope to find Kuiper belt objects that would be suitably positioned for New Horizons to reach. Two contenders remain out of five original candidates found by Hubble, which spent 45 days last summer scouting for targets. Follow-up observations in October narrowed the list to two objects within range of the spacecraft, which has limited fuel for a maneuvering burn, scientists said at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston this week. The newly named objects are 2014 MT69, a 37-mile (60-km) wide body circling some 44.3 times farther away from the sun than Earth. An encounter with MT69 would occur around New Year’s Day 2019. “It’s not a terribly bright target and it’s not very big … and it’s quite possibly smaller, if it’s a binary or if other things are going on,” said astronomer and New Horizons team member Simon Porter, with the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. The advantage of MT69 is that New Horizons can reach it using less fuel. The encounter also would occur three months sooner than a flyby of the other candidate, known as 2014 MT70. MT70 is brighter than MT60, and possibly larger, with a diameter of about 47 miles (76 km), so more desirable from a scientific perspective, Porter said. “We can only go to one of these, so we have to make the decision. MT69 is the front-runner because it’s lower Delta-v (change in velocity). Engineers love that. On the other hand, they kind of hate that it’s dimmer because on approach we might end up using more fuel for final (course) corrections,” he said."

7/14/2015 2:24:38 PM

Nice, thanks.

7/14/2015 3:03:23 PM

found this funny, from a Financial Times blogger:


PM: And this, allegedly, is Pluto



That’s from Nasa, via the BBC
I say allegedly, but what I really mean is that this is not Pluto at all
It’s an artist's impression of what Pluto might look like
But everyone wants to buy the story that we all ready have these lovely pics of a pink planet with a heart
Bizarre the way people want to believe stuff from space
When actually, it’s just made up by Nasa
Let me show you the real “last picture”



Anyway, just wanted to make that point
We will get fresh pictures of Pluto later today apparently
But they haven't arrived yet

7/15/2015 7:41:00 AM

^ What...? So NASA did not release that picture? Where are you getting "artist's impression" from? I just want to know.

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/video/approachmovie_color-1980x1080.mp4

[Edited on July 15, 2015 at 11:08 AM. Reason : .]

nvm...that's from a blogger. "quote" your shit!

[Edited on July 15, 2015 at 11:09 AM. Reason : .]

7/15/2015 11:06:37 AM

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/07/15/2134520/nasas-pluto-fraud-conducted-in-plain-sight/

Quote :

"You can Google it yourself — “NASA Pluto – images” — or click below… Not one of those Plutos is real. Every single image has been doctored. Here are the most recent real picture of Pluto from the New Horizons probe, which arrived at NASA HQ in black and white… Not so sexy, eh? Which is why the world’s media (and everyone else with a vested interest in inter-planetary credits) drink in and drool over images like this instead… Regarding which Nasa tells us: "New Horizons has obtained impressive new images of Pluto and its large moon Charon that highlight their compositional diversity." Before confessing… These are not actual color images of Pluto and Charon—they are shown here in exaggerated colors that make it easy to note the differences in surface material and features on each planetary body. So this represents an artist’s impression, based on what colour the planetary gasses that scientists guess surround Pluto might look like. This is nonsense and it’s getting way out of hand… Source: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/pluto-by-moonlight As the space agency plays its PR games and argues that it’s making other-worldly matters accessible to ordinary folk, note the risks here. Assuming New Horizons did whizz past the dwarf planet overnight, taking real (relative) close up pics along the way… What happens if the real planet doesn’t feature “whales, doughnuts, and a heart”? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33531811 And why, when it’s gone 10.50am in Laurel, Maryland, have we yet to see the genuine snaps?"

While to his last point it's because the download time from Pluto's distance takes forever, I do agree with the point of why are we releasing so many fake pictures when they are going to eventually release actual real ones. The one above where someone can draw in Pluto the dog. Does that valley really exist or is just the artist making a joke?

[Edited on July 15, 2015 at 1:12 PM. Reason : /]

7/15/2015 1:11:17 PM

what?

7/15/2015 2:26:18 PM

how is that an artist's rendition?

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?Category=Planets&IM_ID=20233

Quote :

"Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, taken on July 13, 2015, when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometers) from the surface. This is the last and most detailed image sent to Earth before the spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto on July 14. The color image has been combined with lower-resolution color information from the Ralph instrument that was acquired earlier on July 13."

[Edited on July 15, 2015 at 4:55 PM. Reason : ]

7/15/2015 4:53:48 PM

Don't Dis on Pluto.

7/16/2015 1:43:38 PM

Flyin Ryan... you are either trolling or a complete moron.

7/16/2015 11:59:08 PM

I'm going with the latter.

7/17/2015 8:57:01 AM

7/18/2015 10:21:08 AM

lol

7/18/2015 9:29:39 PM

Pluto has....

a tail!

http://www.businessinsider.com/pluto-dwarf-planet-ion-gas-tail-nasa-new-horizons-2015-7

7/18/2015 11:22:36 PM