Posted on 07/03/2016 6:20:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In a late-day Friday announcement on July 1, 2016, NASA said that the first-ever spacecraft to visit the dwarf planet Pluto – NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft – has received the nod to fly onward to an object deeper in the Kuiper Belt, known as 2014 MU69. This object had not even been discovered when New Horizons was launched in 2006.
The spacecraft will rendezvous with 2014 MU69 on January 1, 2019.
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In addition to the extension of the New Horizons mission, NASA determined that the Dawn spacecraft should remain at the dwarf planet Ceres, rather than changing course to the main belt asteroid Adeona.
Green commented:
The long-term monitoring of Ceres, particularly as it gets closer to perihelion – the part of its orbit with the shortest distance to the sun – has the potential to provide more significant science discoveries than a flyby of Adeona.
(Excerpt) Read more at earthsky.org ...
Of course, when New Horizons was launched, Pluto was a FULL Planet.
Good thing NH was in the right spot to tell Pluto the sad news.
By the headline I though the mission was to honor Muslims in some way to Obozo’s liking.
Pluto is the god of the underworld, allah spoke to mad mo in a cave.
Do the math.
NASA has become a half-asteroid operation. ;-)
How dumb of me - I should have thought of that sooner. If only I had more Common Core critical thinking.
More buried news delivered late on a Friday. Otherwise, it might dominate the Sunday talk shows [sarc].
Thanks BenLurkin.
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In addition to the extension of the New Horizons mission, NASA determined that the Dawn spacecraft should remain at the dwarf planet Ceres, rather than changing course to the main belt asteroid Adeona.
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Scientists and engineers have done a lot of patches to keep Dawn productive after multiple equipment failures.
Wonder what lie they will make up around this probe ... almost everything NASA does in space is one layer of some lie or another: from images made with obsolete cameras based on yesterday’s tech to compressed and degraded public images ... nothing they say or do is what it seems ... there is always another layer which gets revealed quietly years or decades later.
Ancient Alien theorist belive
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