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Pluto Encounter

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chafraho

Jul 13, 2015
12:13pm

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I was really getting aroused, what, with all the stuff about Pluto and Ducks, til the ashes came in to play.

alanleroy

Jul 13, 2015
12:48pm

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Originally posted by: snidely333
Supporters of Pluto's status as a full-fledged planet are hopeful the New Horizons images will bolster their case to reinstate Pluto.

"I think that one of the things that will come out of the New Horizons mission is that the public will take a look, and they won't know what else to call Pluto but a planet, and a pretty exciting one," New Horizons principle [sic] investigator Alan Stern told Popular Science.

I would demote Mercury to Dwarf Planet Status too. See how Supporters of Mercury like it.

snidely333

Jul 13, 2015
1:19pm

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Originally posted by: alanleroy

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Originally posted by: snidely333
Supporters of Pluto's status as a full-fledged planet are hopeful the New Horizons images will bolster their case to reinstate Pluto.

"I think that one of the things that will come out of the New Horizons mission is that the public will take a look, and they won't know what else to call Pluto but a planet, and a pretty exciting one," New Horizons principle [sic] investigator Alan Stern told Popular Science.

I would demote Mercury to Dwarf Planet Status too. See how Supporters of Mercury like it.

Why do any planets (a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star) need to be called mean names like "dwarf" by those eggheads [sic] at NASA just because they are size and/or atmosphere challenged?

alanleroy

Jul 13, 2015
1:46pm

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Originally posted by: snidely333

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Originally posted by: alanleroy
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Originally posted by: snidely333
Supporters of Pluto's status as a full-fledged planet are hopeful the New Horizons images will bolster their case to reinstate Pluto.

"I think that one of the things that will come out of the New Horizons mission is that the public will take a look, and they won't know what else to call Pluto but a planet, and a pretty exciting one," New Horizons principle [sic] investigator Alan Stern told Popular Science.

I would demote Mercury to Dwarf Planet Status too. See how Supporters of Mercury like it.

At least Pluto's got 5 moons. Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. Mercury's got nothing....like a rock.

jatki

Jul 13, 2015
2:19pm

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Originally posted by: snidely333

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Originally posted by: alanleroy
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Originally posted by: snidely333
Supporters of Pluto's status as a full-fledged planet are hopeful the New Horizons images will bolster their case to reinstate Pluto.

"I think that one of the things that will come out of the New Horizons mission is that the public will take a look, and they won't know what else to call Pluto but a planet, and a pretty exciting one," New Horizons principle [sic] investigator Alan Stern told Popular Science.

I would demote Mercury to Dwarf Planet Status too. See how Supporters of Mercury like it.

Well apparently size does matter snidely.

forkushV

Jul 13, 2015
3:05pm

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If Pluto is a planet then Ceres, which is slightly bigger, would definitely have to be one. And there are three more dwarf planets that would be up for consideration, and likely dozens more could be added in the next few years, all of them dwarfs.

There's a pretty entertaining book, "Why I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming" by Caltech astrophysicist Michael E. Brown. Brown had the most to lose by reclassifying Pluto, since he would have likely been credited with discovering a new planet, but he became the one person most responsible for the reclassification. He hasn't been awarded the Nobel prize - yet.

Don

Jul 14, 2015
1:16am

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Last photo from 13 July, . . . close-up flyby photos should show up today.

It looks bumpy, . . . exactly like a planet !

Don

Jul 14, 2015
11:04am

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As he types DonDiego is watching NASA TV where the New Horizons Operations Center reports the spacecraft has survived its flyby of Pluto and is in perfect health.
It is now "outbound from Pluto."

They will receive the first close-up photos tomorrow. And it will take about 15 months for all the data collected over the last 24-hours to be transmitted back to Earth.

BobOrme

Jul 14, 2015
1:40pm

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jatki

Jul 14, 2015
4:01pm

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Originally posted by: DonDiego
Last photo from 13 July, . . . close-up flyby photos should show up today.

It looks bumpy, . . . exactly like a planet !

Well if that black spot in the lower right is being construed as a whale that bigger black area right on his ass sure looks like a pig to me complete with a snout, little mouth and an itsy-bitsy eye. Also that diamond looking thing on his back sure doesn't look like any crater I've ever seen or is that the amphitheater DD had mentioned earlier, I had failed to see it then. Plain as day in this pic.
Anyway all good stuff. I used to be somewhat of an astronomy buff a long ,long time when I was very young, early elementary school. A friend and I knew more than most adults, which doesn't really say a whole lot, I doubt the avg adult knows how many planets there are. We had drawn up lots of really cool plans for a mobile lab complete with telescope that retracted in and out of the roof. We were very forward thinkers for such young tykes.

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