[marron]

So the results are rather inconclusive. For me, thats a good reason to do it again with the next comet to pass by. Maybe the results of these measurements can help us tweak the instrument package we plant on the next one, but we should definitely do it again.

They should use a tiny nuclear source, like Cassini, so they aren’t dependent on solar power. That seems silly, to go to all that time and expense and you’re depending on a solar panel to catch sunlight from a zillion miles away.

I wish the satellite headed for Pluto would drop a lander on the surface there too.

[Moonman62]

I wish the satellite headed for Pluto would drop a lander on the surface there too.

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New Horizons is hauling butt. It doesn’t have enough fuel to slow down and go in orbit, much less land. Pluto’s low mass doesn’t help either.

[Swordmaker]

They should use a tiny nuclear source, like Cassini, so they aren’t dependent on solar power. That seems silly, to go to all that time and expense and you’re depending on a solar panel to catch sunlight from a zillion miles away.

They had to be politically correct and green.