These Hubble Space Telescope images, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys, reveal Pluto, its large moon Charon, and the planet's two new candidate satellites. Between May 15 and May 18, 2005, Charon, and the putative moons, provisionally designated P1 and P2, all appear to rotate counterclockwise around Pluto. P1 and P2 move less than Charon because they are farther from Pluto, and therefore would be orbiting at slower speeds. P1 and P2 are thousands of times less bright than Pluto and Charon. The enhanced-color images of Pluto (the brightest object) and Charon (to the right of Pluto) were constructed by combining short exposure images taken in filters near 475 nanometers (blue) and 555 nanometers (green-yellow). The images of the new satellites were made from longer exposures taken in a single filter centered near 606 nanometers (yellow), so no color information is available for them.
Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Weaver (JHU/APL), A. Stern (SwRI), and the Hubble Space Telescope Pluto Companion Search Team
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2 posted on
10/31/2005 6:23:44 PM PST by
NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
"That's no moon..."
6 posted on
10/31/2005 6:31:07 PM PST by
RandallFlagg
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To: NormsRevenge
There must be a mistake. Pluto, like most dogs, would
only have two "moons"... [um, never mind]
9 posted on
10/31/2005 6:45:31 PM PST by
aMorePerfectUnion
(outside a good dog, a book is your best friend. inside a dog it's too dark to read)
To: NormsRevenge
I thnk it would be a damm shame to abandon Hubble.
What is the cost to keep a team running it and keep it repaired?
How much to replace it- geez we got some great stuff from hubble
10 posted on
10/31/2005 6:53:27 PM PST by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; sionnsar; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; ...
Going out in style...
11 posted on
10/31/2005 6:58:20 PM PST by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
To: sweetliberty; null and void; EsmeraldaA; nicmarlo; phantomworker; Borax Queen; restornu; ...
Let me just say this first: This is NOT my fault.
That said, science ping.
Cool stuff.
16 posted on
10/31/2005 7:43:01 PM PST by
Darksheare
(I'm not suspicious & I hope it's nutritious but I think this sandwich is made of mime.)
To: Southack
Captures. :') At Pluto's distance from the Sun, it's easier for Pluto to grab something because it has a larger sphere of influence than the Earth. (':
18 posted on
10/31/2005 7:46:14 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
To: FairOpinion; blam; Ernest_at_the_Beach
as a (non-binding, obviously) suggestion for naming...
for the one hardest to see and/or nearest escape from Pluto, "Houdini" (since this appears to be an announcement from today -- although I didn't check too closely).
34 posted on
10/31/2005 8:05:00 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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To: NormsRevenge
Charon ? isnt that where Bele and Lokai were from? (or will be from?)
36 posted on
10/31/2005 8:07:12 PM PST by
isom35
To: Paul_Denton
39 posted on
10/31/2005 8:08:46 PM PST by
Darksheare
(I'm not suspicious & I hope it's nutritious but I think this sandwich is made of mime.)
To: NormsRevenge
52 posted on
10/31/2005 9:08:43 PM PST by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: NormsRevenge
53 posted on
10/31/2005 9:30:17 PM PST by
NormsRevenge
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54 posted on
10/31/2005 9:38:09 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
To: NormsRevenge
They need to name one of them Cerebrus, the other, Hades.
Or maybe they should just name them Elysium and Tarterus.
56 posted on
11/01/2005 6:06:59 AM PST by
Centurion2000
((Aubrey, Tx) --- America, we get the best government corporations can buy.)
To: NormsRevenge
Thought I read somewhere that Charon was larger than Pluto? Sure doesn't look like it.
To: NormsRevenge
Sure is a worthless piece of junk, huh.? /s
All the theories about the flaws have come to naught! It's a simple thing to apply science to science...
DOD work for intelligence photo movement recognition software has spawned the use of similar technology to find breast cancer, and other maladies of the human genome...
59 posted on
11/01/2005 6:31:52 AM PST by
pageonetoo
(You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
To: NormsRevenge
61 posted on
11/01/2005 6:38:28 AM PST by
jpsb
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68 posted on
11/01/2005 10:37:18 AM PST by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
optical interferometry observatory:
Google
81 posted on
11/01/2005 10:33:12 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
To: NormsRevenge
Are there any moons that have moons?
83 posted on
11/02/2005 1:19:32 AM PST by
The Red Zone
(Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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