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New Horizons Flyby Plan In Place
"Scientists on the New Horizons mission are
beginning to plan in earnest how they will evaluate the data that will begin flowing back from Pluto in less than two years, when the nuclear-powered probe begins sending “better than Hubble” imagery of the distant body and its satellites." See: http://www.aviationweek.com/Article....p21-600034.xml |
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New Horizons Flyby Plan In Place
After the Pluto flyby, are there any other objects of
interest out there that New Horizons could be re-directed towards? |
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New Horizons Flyby Plan In Place
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After the Pluto flyby, are there any other objects of interest out there that New Horizons could be re-directed towards? http://physics.stackexchange.com/que...ing-past-pluto suggests there is (or at least was) a search for one or two Kuiper Belt Objects to which it might be directed, post-Pluto. It references http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mission/mission_timeline.php rick jones -- denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, rebirth... where do you want to be today? these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... |
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New Horizons Flyby Plan In Place
On Thursday, August 1, 2013 5:14:50 PM UTC-4, Rick Jones wrote:
wrote: After the Pluto flyby, are there any other objects of interest out there that New Horizons could be re-directed towards? http://physics.stackexchange.com/que...ing-past-pluto suggests there is (or at least was) a search for one or two Kuiper Belt Objects to which it might be directed, post-Pluto. It references http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mission/mission_timeline.php rick jones -- denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, rebirth... where do you want to be today? these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... Beyond the very real likelihood of new moons being found, there are also Kuiper belt objects (dwarf planets) nearby according to some http://io9.com/5828589/three-potenti...red-near-pluto http://www.space.com/12536-3-dwarf-p...elt-pluto.html |
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New Horizons Flyby Plan In Place
On Sunday, August 4, 2013 10:45:19 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Thursday, August 1, 2013 5:14:50 PM UTC-4, Rick Jones wrote: wrote: After the Pluto flyby, are there any other objects of interest out there that New Horizons could be re-directed towards? http://physics.stackexchange.com/que...ing-past-pluto suggests there is (or at least was) a search for one or two Kuiper Belt Objects to which it might be directed, post-Pluto. It references http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mission/mission_timeline.php rick jones -- denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, rebirth... where do you want to be today? these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... Beyond the very real likelihood of new moons being found, there are also Kuiper belt objects (dwarf planets) nearby according to some http://io9.com/5828589/three-potenti...red-near-pluto http://www.space.com/12536-3-dwarf-p...elt-pluto.html http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/...m?Object=Pluto Hydra, Stix, Nix, Kerberos, Charon - are moons. |
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New Horizons Flyby Plan In Place
On Sunday, August 4, 2013 10:48:28 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sunday, August 4, 2013 10:45:19 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Thursday, August 1, 2013 5:14:50 PM UTC-4, Rick Jones wrote: wrote: After the Pluto flyby, are there any other objects of interest out there that New Horizons could be re-directed towards? http://physics.stackexchange.com/que...ing-past-pluto suggests there is (or at least was) a search for one or two Kuiper Belt Objects to which it might be directed, post-Pluto. It references http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mission/mission_timeline.php rick jones -- denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, rebirth... where do you want to be today? these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... Beyond the very real likelihood of new moons being found, there are also Kuiper belt objects (dwarf planets) nearby according to some http://io9.com/5828589/three-potenti...red-near-pluto http://www.space.com/12536-3-dwarf-p...lt-pluto..html http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/...m?Object=Pluto Hydra, Stix, Nix, Kerberos, Charon - are moons. Boosting at one gee to Pluto at its current position some 4.3 billion km from Earth would take us half way there in 7 days 15 hours 37 minutes and 33 seconds. At that point we'd be traveling at 6,498.15 km/sec. It would take another 7 days 15 hours of boosting against our direction of travel to bring us to rest in the Pluto system. A minimum energy system to take us to Pluto and back requires we eject 2.90 tonnes for every tonne of load we carry, assuming 15% structure fraction overall. 1.00 tonne payload 0.68 tonne structure 2.90 tonne propellant and eject that propellant at 26,000 km/sec. This requires 1.8 tonnes of lithium-6 deuteride per tonne of payload. (620 kg per tonne of propellant) So a 4.58 tonne vehicle carrying 1.00 tonne of payload with an inert empty mass of 680 kg and also carrying 1.8 tonnes of lithium 6 deuteride with 0.62 tonnes of inert propellant - with a rocket energized by fusion pulse and a delta vee of 6.7% light speed! (top speed 1.6% light speed) |
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