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Looking goooood 8)
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Just reading about tht, mind-boggling -
"Because the observations are all run on an automated command sequence, New Horizons had to fly a perfect path past Pluto, and with perfect timing - otherwise its cameras would have shot empty sky where the dwarf or its moons were expected to be. This necessitated aiming New Horizons at a "keyhole" in space just 100km by 150km (60miles by 90 miles), and arriving at that location within a set margin of 100 seconds. The last indications were that New Horizons was on the button of that aim point, being perhaps 70km closer to the surface of Pluto than anticipated, and arriving about 72 seconds early. All this was achieved after a multi-billion-km flight across the Solar System lasting nine-and-a-half years."
And Virgin can only give us a four-hour window for an engineer to drive five miles to our house to fix our TiVo box. 🙄
Just saw that on Twitter. First comment, "looks real, unlike the moon landings."
Comments like that just make me wish abortion was legal up to the 60th trimester.
And Virgin can only give us a four-hour window for an engineer to drive five miles to our house to fix our TiVo box
To be fair, traffic is quite light in the outer solar system.
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To be fair, traffic is quite light in the outer solar system.
I'll give you that, but -/+ 72 seconds after nine and a half years is fairly good, I reckon. An error of 70km is still within Virgin's working tolerances. 🙂
Will we see the Clangers ?
Looks like one of those stone balls in my Garden, have they landed there? 🙄
Pluto had better hope Eddie doesn't find it 🙂
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Just wow
Surprisingly appropriate naming...
HT @scottjohnson
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That's brilliant. And of course, now I can't un-see it.
Aaargh! What he said ^^ 🙂
No wonder they were calling it the 'love heart' to try and deflect attention away from that! Brilliant!
Nasa can do all this and their franchisees can't even get a rocket to the ISS.
I love science.
pfft, no idea why they needed to travel 3B miles and wait nearly 10 years?
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#potatoflyby
zippykona
Nasa can do all this and their franchisees can't even get a rocket to the ISS.
To be fair, the first 100 odd miles is the hardest bit........ 😉
Surprisingly appropriate naming...
Ha!
Stolen for Facebook.
maxtorque: genius, bravo 😆
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😀 but surely that should be applied to Charon, not Pluto?
"That's no moon"
It even has a suitable dark bit:
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I couldn't resist...
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