Thanks Olog-hai.
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Posted on 07/15/2013 1:16:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
I figured I wouldn’t be fast enough to post that comment, and I was right.
If I were to park an intersetellar asteroid ship around a planet, I would park it around a gas giant because you could easily refuel the engines with the abundant hydrogen gas and the many moons around a gas giant provide a lot of mineral weath for mining...
Just saying...
I really have to wonder sometimes.... I wonder, but belife if beyond my grasp until I can see it with my own eyes...
The scuttlebutt is that Voyager VI was supposed to find it, but Hubble found it and changed history. This is Hugh and Series. It might knock back our invention of warp drive for two centuries.
Are they gonna name it after Saint Skittles ?
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Thanks Olog-hai. Extra to APoD members.
Should wind up named Enuten.
There are prediscovery photos of Pluto and many other bodies such as asteroids and comets — they got missed by someone (sometimes even by the eventual discoverer) who wasn’t at the time looking for it. Prediscovery photos are handy for figuring out the orbit and orbital period of newly discovered bodies. And before photography:
Galileo’s prediscovery of Neptune
http://eotvos.dm.unipi.it/galileo%20neptune%20SAit%202009.pdf
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