Galaxies Astronomy Club
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We keep our star talk down to earth! Beginning stargazers, professional astronomers, armchair astronauts and the cosmologically curious are all invited to join us. Galaxies Astronomy Club was founded in 1994.
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New Horizons Is Awake At Pluto The Planets + Pluto!
From: Cstar1
1/1/15
NewHorizons2015 This 1991 @USPS stamp will fly past Pluto aboard New Horizons in July, making its self obsolete!
From: Cstar1
1/11/15
Fraser Cain @fcain Did you know that New Horizons is carrying the ashes of Pluto discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh? - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11335524/NASA-probe-to-arrive-at-Pluto-carrying-ashes-of-Clyde-Tombaugh.html …
From: Cstar1
2/17/15
One month into the very early stages of Pluto encounter now. Big picture of the whole flyby in this image:
From: Cstar1
2/27/15
New Horizons
New Horizons remains healthy and on course for its prime Pluto system science in July! As I write these words I am flying to a dress-rehearsal simulation (called a "sim") of the closest approach portion of the Pluto flyby. About 40 science team members are involved-atmospheric scientists, geologists, geochemists, planetary astronomers and space physics experts.
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From: Cstar1
2/28/15
Soon....
SpaceAstronomer @SpaceAstronomer Today's best image of Pluto & equivalent view of Earth @NewHorizons2015. http://bit.ly/1JUICpV RT @coreyspowell
From: Cstar1
5/8/15
Pluto-bound craft hunts for hazardous moons
NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Steve Gribben On 11 May, a telescope aboard a NASA craft will turn and stare at Pluto - like a space-robot equivalent of a sailor watching for shoals that could take out his vessel. As the New Horizons craft hurtles towards its 14 July rendezvous with Pluto, mission scientists are preparing to guide it through what could be a dangerous dusty realm.
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5/15/15
Impending Pluto visit is the first encounter with a new class of worlds?
May 11, Astronomy & Space/Space Exploration The sun shines wanly through Pluto's thin atmosphere, illuminating its mysterious layered ices. Since the New Horizons probe to Pluto was launched, scientists have come to understand that Pluto orbits in the Kuiper Belt, a region of innumerable small icy comet-like bodies and small or dwarf planets at the solar system's outer edge, which was discovered in 1992.
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