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
7/26/15
Nailed it.
Pluto today (left, via New Horizons) and from a painting done in 1979 (right).
Pluto's Face Was Predicted in 1979 ... and It"s a Beaut.
I talk a lot about how entwined art and science are, but I don't think I've ever seen as good an example as this: Space Artist Don Dixon predicted what Pluto looked like back in 1979 ... and he nailed it. Are you kidding me? That's the cover he did...
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From: nnonbeliever
7/26/15
To me, the craters look like the impacts were made in a very dusty environment. But I am mere amateur so...
From: Cstar1
7/26/15
I don't think the craters would still be so well-defined if it were dusty, would they?
From: nnonbeliever
7/27/15
Take a pile of flour. Put it in a layer, not real thick. Drop something in it. To me it leaves the same type of cratering as seen on Charon.
From: Cstar1
7/27/15
True, but left on its own, or with any wind, and the sides collapse and soften.
From: Cstar1
7/27/15
More Amazing Images of Pluto: Ice Flows and an Aura of Haze
I've been expecting-and seeing-amazing images of Pluto from the close approach flyby of the New Horizons probe from mid-July. And even though I knew the images taken once the spacecraft was past Pluto would be lovely, I still wasn't quite prepared for just how awe-inspiring they would be. Behold:
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From: nnonbeliever
7/28/15
"True, but left on its own, or with any wind, and the sides collapse and soften."
Much less gravity and I doubt Charon has any wind to speak of.