Posted on 01/01/2019 11:41:50 AM PST by BenLurkin
Although the flyby occurred at 12:33 a.m. ET on Tuesday, the spacecraft is so far from Earth that the “phone-home” signal didn’t reach us until about 10:30 a.m. ET.
Mission scientists were relieved about the success because there was only one chance to get it right as New Horizons screamed past Ultima at 31,500 miles per hour. This incredible feat was possible because thousands of operations on the spacecraft worked in sync.
“We’ve just accomplished the most distant flyby,” mission operations manager Alice Bowman said. “This science will help us understand the origins of our solar system.”
New Horizons has also sent back a first look at Ultima Thule — taken from half a million miles out, so pardon the pixels.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Who cares about the origin, we should be more concerned about how it will end !!
Name the thing after jimmy carter - and send him there today!
So, 10 hours for the signal to reach us. I forgot for a moment that 12:33 is 0:33.
Great! We have a multi-million dollar photo of a space peanut.
You may want to refigure that.....12:33 a.m. = 33 minutes after midnight. 10:30 a.m. = 10 hours and 30 minutes after midnight........or 10 hours and 27 minutes AFTER the flyby and the signal was sent.
“You get what you pay for.”
Not always.
The Apollo mission cost roughly $25 billion.
For that, we got Tang and a bag of rocks.
My own advice on refiguring.....9 hours 57 minutes.
“Suppose God bought it for us.
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Does He shop at the Solar System store?
Yeah, I actually read through that three times to make sure I wasn’t making a dumb mistake. Did it anyway.
Apollo was canceled because it was so expensive.
Now we spend the entire 12 years of the Apollo program on welfare payments every 90 days. And that is even adjusting for inflation.
Shows just how bad things have gotten.
It is all out of control.
The space craft is 4 billion miles away. At that distance, the data transmission rate is about a 100 baud and is going to take over 20 months to download all the data.
I don’t think you can even get Tang anymore. Is it still around?
Someone needs to yell focus at the projectionist.
I was just wondering if the above distorted image is all we are going to get, or is a closer better image from the fly by yet to come?
I’m going by all the “watch new horizon picture it as it flies by live” headlines. lol
ok I looked it up on wiki. Tang predates the manned space program by a few years. Currently it is very successful around the world. I just don’t see it at my local supermarkets. Oddly its wildly popular during Ramadam. So its become a fave muzzie drink. Go figure. Maybe this is NASAs muslim outreach.
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