Posted on 01/02/2019 1:24:00 PM PST by Simon Green
Humanity has captured its first clear look at an object in the faraway Kuiper Belt.
NASA revealed the first images and science data from this week's historic flyby in a news conference Wednesday afternoon.
Far from the blurry 'bowling pin' we saw with New Horizons' first look when it beamed its signal home early morning on January 1, the new images reveal Ultima Thule is snowman-shaped red world with two distinct lobes - one stacked atop the other.
This arrangement is what's known as a contact binary, the experts say – and, it’s now the first a spacecraft has ever explored.
Photographing Ultima Thule – and traveling more than four billion miles through space to get there – is a ‘technical success beyond anything ever attempted before in spaceflight,’ Principal Investigator Alan Stern said in a press conference Wednesday.
'It's really only the size of Washington D.C., and about as reflective as garden variety dirt,' Stern explained, noting that the object wasn't even known to the world prior to the summer of 2014.
'We were ultimately chasing it down in the dark at 32,000 miles per hour.'
The best images of the new batch were captured when New Horizons was about 17,000 miles (27, 000 kilometers) from Ultima Thule.
And, the pictures will only get better from here.
The scientists say the two lobes of Ultima Thule came together in a 'gentle' accretion process, with two objects bound together by each other's gravity.
The primitive world was 'born' this way, and did not evolve or deform through external processes to take on the strange shape, the team explains.
'New Horizons is like a time machine, taking us back to the birth of the solar system,'said Jeff Moore, New Horizons Geology and Geophysics team lead.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
A little quick math - 4 billion miles away and I walk generally about 3 miles an hour - if I walked every hour without stopping for lunch or pee breaks, I could be there in about 1.33 billion years.
"Orion is in the final stages of preparation for the uncrewed flight test that will take it 3,600 miles above Earth on a 4.5-hour mission to test many of the systems necessary for future human missions into deep space."
"On future missions, Orion will carry astronauts farther into the solar system than ever before, including to an asteroid and Mars."
Are we done now?
The answer is "Yes."
Gentlemen,
There are no “orbits.”
There are no “satellites.”
There is no “Hubble Telescope.”
There is no “ISS.”
Men have never set foot on the moon.
There is no “New Horizons” spacecraft.
There have never been probes launched from Earth and sent outward into a “solar system.”
NASA is a propaganda agency whose main work is to produce CGI.
Its purpose is to hide the fact that the God of the Bible created Earth and everything associated with it.
NASA has lied to you and continues to lie to you.
You cannot conceive that our governments would ever do such a thing. The fraud would have to be massive.
Yes. The fraud would have to be massive.
Yes. The fraud IS massive.
Yes. You have been deceived.
It is not your fault. You have been conditioned since birth. You have been brainwashed.
But now, you are at least minimally aware of your position.
I predict, however, that all of you will swallow the “blue pill” and go back to sleep.
I pray, however, that at least one of you wakes up. If you should wake up, then please read Genesis Chapter 1 to learn what your heavenly Father designed and built. It is not at all what NASA would have you believe.
For those of you who believe the words our heavenly Father left for us in His Bible, a love letter to His children, may He bless you abundantly in this life and the next.
For the rest of you, there is still time to change your mind.
Blessings to all of you and your loved ones.
I give up. You’re a certifiable idiot.
I guess NASA then provides CGI for World Cup broadcasts, because it takes satellites to transmit the signal in real-time. And GPS is a big fat lie. NASA has to fool my brother when he's driving his new Jeep and the car knows if he is exceeding the speed limit for that stretch of road.
Seriously. Get help.
dirtboy,
Okay. One “blue pill” for you.
Get lost. Idiots like you are a dime a dozen on the internet.
Dunno, he/she/it makes a pretty cogent argument at post 84...
Just a quick question.
Do you own or use a GPS unit?
Frosty?
I want to know who is supplying the dimes. ;-)
I am VERY much a believer. A strong believer. Believing in space flight is NOT a biblical contradiction. In fact the bible indicates that man EVEN without God, can achieve almost anything although those achievements might not be within God's wishes. On what do you base your opinion that the bible speaks against space flight?
Well said. Post 84 was one of the most pathetic posts in the history of FR - wrapping abject, conspiracy-addled ignorance around Christian faith. Bleech.
His/her/it/indeterminates exegesis of Genesis is not in line with proper hermaneutical principles. There is nothing in Genesis that would preclude anything that NASA has done (or claimed to have done according to this person of dubious scholarship.) Unfortunately there are some churches that will allow such abuse of thought to be preached..
I’m betting he/she/it/indeterminate is also an advocate for the inerrancy of the King James translation as the only true Bible. Isn’t that right, TiTW&D?
You may be right but this one is far out man. :)
Do you suppose this deluded creature is a flat earther? ;-)
TXnMA
Looks like BB-8 from Star Wars to me anyway
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