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!
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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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From: Cstar1
6/24/15
Want to build your own model of New Horizons? 3D printable plans available here.
From: Cstar1
7/1/15
I haven't listened to this whole thing, but one of the things I did learn is that it will take 16 months to download all the data from the Pluto flyby.
- Edited July 1, 2015 8:57 am by Cstar1
From: Cstar1
7/1/15
NASA @NASA Fly with @NASANewHorizons to its July 14 #PlutoFlyby! Images show Pluto & its largest moon: http://go.nasa.gov/1LUEZwY
