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New Horizons Is Awake At Pluto The Planets + Pluto!
From: $1,661.87 in cats (ROCKETMAN_S)
7/4/15
Either they were right on top of each other in an occultation, or the haze / seeing was too poor to see both Venus and Jupiter.
Just cranked up Stellarium to see what's really going on and when.
Closest conjunction was the night of June 30th. But Jupiter is magnitude -1.36, while Venus is -4.15, nearly 3 orders of magnitude brighter, so I suspect it's the haze that made Venus visible like a streetlight in fog, while Jupiter just vanished in the haze and light pollution from town off to the northwest.
From: Cstar1
7/4/15
This stamp is actually flying on New Horizons to Pluto. It's from 1991, a part of the solar system set.
This is the proposed new stamp, but I haven't figured out yet if it ever got beyond the proposal/petition stage.
From: Cstar1
7/5/15
New Horizons enters safe mode 10 days before Pluto flyby
New Horizons decided to put on a little 4th of July drama for the mission's fans. It's currently in safe mode, and it will likely be a day or two before it recovers and returns to science, but it remains on course for the July 14 flyby.
Read more from Planetary
From: $1,661.87 in cats (ROCKETMAN_S)
7/6/15
Too bad we can't still mail a letter for that cheap.
I remember when a first class postage was a nickel, and I have some old letters with 5 cent stamps on them. Postage has increased almost 10x since then.
From: Cstar1
7/7/15
I think I remember 4c purple Lincoln stamps from when I was little. That's pure memory though, which we all know can be faulty!
From: Cstar1
7/8/15
New Horizons Spacecraft Gets A Whiff Of Pluto's Methane
As the New Horizons spacecraft closes in for its July 14 rendezvous with Pluto, its detectors have identified methane on the former planet's surface. Considering the spacecraft is still 11 million miles away, Pluto must have some strong gas. Pluto is frosted in frozen methane-the stuff of farts and fuel here on Earth.
Read more from Popular Science
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- Edited July 8, 2015 9:23 am by Cstar1
From: Cstar1
7/10/15
New Horizons was about 3.7 million miles (6 million kilometers) from Pluto and Charon when it snapped this portrait late on July 8, 2015. Color data from New Horizons’ Ralph instrument was added to colorize the image. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
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