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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: 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.
From: Cstar1
7/31/15
NASA mission's leader calls B.S. on Pluto haters
Can you say "bullshit" at NASA? The principal investigator for NASA's New Horizons mission did, in an outburst directed at the tortuous rules that led to Pluto's reclassification as a dwarf planet. "It's bullshit," Alan Stern, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, told Tech Insider - with the clear intent of being quoted.
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