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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: MobyD (Moby46)
6/13/15
That reporter needs to learn to pronounce "Kuiper." It rhymes with "piper." Or maybe he said "Kepler," the wrong astronomer if we're talking about the belt of objects beyond Neptune.
His pronunciation stood out for me because I wasn't sure how Kuiper's name was pronounced until online dictionaries with sound clips came along. I never was much good at interpreting the strange code dictionaries use for showing how words are pronounced.
From: $1,661.87 in cats (ROCKETMAN_S)
6/13/15
The long-awaited flyby is coming in really fast. And it may be the last of the truly outer-outer planet explorations in our lifetime.
The resulting pictures should keep scientists busy for a few entire careers.
From: Cstar1
6/13/15
Yep. I think it's 30 days from now. I hope it's close enough for some really sharp pictures - I don't think I've read about what the expectations are. Cassini-like?
From: Cstar1
6/16/15
First visit to Pluto could rewrite the solar system's story
Pluto: welcome to the planet that was (Image: Marie Bergeron) FOUR and a half light-hours from Earth, a small planet is about to get a small visitor. On 14 July, NASA's New Horizons craft will skim within just 13,000 kilometres of Pluto, entering a hitherto-unexplored zone of the solar system.
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From: Cstar1
6/16/15
NewHorizons2015 @NewHorizons2015 One month to Pluto, on track, all clear! http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150615 …
From: Cstar1
6/17/15
Hubble to the rescue! The last-ditch effort to discover a Kuiper belt target for New Horizons
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla 17-06-2014 11:59 CDT Topics: trans-neptunian objects, New Horizons, astronomy and astrophysics spacecraft, Hubble Space Telescope, explaining science Will New Horizons have a mission after Pluto? Back when New Horizons launched in 2006, Alan Stern did not expect to be asking that question in the summer of 2014.
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