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

After the Pluto flyby, are there any other objects of
interest out there that New Horizons could be re-directed
towards?

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

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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

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.

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)