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Posted: Jul 22, 2015 - 6:37am

 n4ku wrote: 
i love this.
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Posted: Jul 22, 2015 - 6:37am

More Pluto! And Two Weird Moons. Well, It’s All Weird. It’s Pluto.
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Posted: Jul 20, 2015 - 10:43am

 Steely_D wrote:

Meet the Scientists Who Helped Make Those Groundbreaking Pluto Photos Possible

My college roomie at the top (in the hat).

A few rows down below him - Dr. Brian May...
 


 
Very cool indeed.


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Posted: Jul 20, 2015 - 10:33am

 Steely_D wrote:

A few rows down below him - Dr. Brian May...
 


 

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Posted: Jul 20, 2015 - 10:26am

 Steely_D wrote:

Meet the Scientists Who Helped Make Those Groundbreaking Pluto Photos Possible

My college roomie at the top (in the hat).

A few rows down below him - Dr. Brian May...
 
Very cool.
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Posted: Jul 20, 2015 - 10:22am


Meet the Scientists Who Helped Make Those Groundbreaking Pluto Photos Possible

My college roomie at the top (in the hat).

A few rows down below him - Dr. Brian May...
 

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Posted: Jul 18, 2015 - 3:27pm

What's really weird about Pluto are these mountains - and yeah, they are really big mountains. 

Our problem is we compare everything new with the familiar. We see mountains on Pluto and think, oh yeah, mountains like ours, and promptly think that's normal.

But the trouble is, it is not the slightest bit normal. Our mountains look they way they do because of plate tectonics pushing them up and erosion pulling them down (think of rain and floods ripping everything down again).

Pluto doesn't have rain. So how the frying chicken licken do you get mountains looking like ours? 

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Posted: Jul 18, 2015 - 3:26pm

What's really weird about Pluto are these mountains - and yeah, they are really big mountains. 

Our problem is we compare everything new with the familiar. We see mountains on Pluto and think, oh yeah, mountains like ours, and promptly think that's normal.

But the trouble is, it is not the slightest bit normal. Our mountains look they way they do because of plate tectonics pushing them up and erosion pulling them down (think of rain and floods ripping everything down again).

Pluto doesn't have rain. So how the frying chicken licken do you get mountains looking like ours? 

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Posted: Jul 18, 2015 - 11:03am

 Steely_D wrote:
My college roomie (and member of my LSU championship trivia team, and bass player in our band) was creating some of the first pics of Pluto from four pixel (not megapixel) images at the beginning of his career.
Now, he's seeing the planet from three Billion miles away.

He invited me to the launch of NH but I didn't grasp its importance and skipped it. (Me = idiot)

Now he's identifying Kuiper Belt Objects so NH doesn't hit them, and sifting through this other image data that's coming back from Pluto.
It's the culmination of 35 years of work. I'm a bit proud of my (still) good friend. Last I saw him was a year ago when he flew in for the King Crimson shows in the Bay Area. We thought about going to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass but opted to spend all day at a pinball museum in Alameda - which was probably a better choice.

It's fun for me to watch this video. He starts very reserved and then his exuberance starts to show through as he talks about the coolness of what he's been doing.

 
Very cool. Such a great time for him to see this come to fruition.{#Clap}
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Posted: Jul 18, 2015 - 8:18am

 JrzyTmata wrote:

did you make this or find it on the innernets? it is awesome.
I think the shape looks more like Pluto the Dog instead of the heart everyone sees.

 
I made that one but apparently about every 400th person alive did one.
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Posted: Jul 18, 2015 - 8:11am

 JrzyTmata wrote:

did you make this or find it on the innernets? it is awesome.
I think the shape looks more like Pluto the Dog instead of the heart everyone sees.

 
That was all over the web the other day. And, yes, it doesn't look at all like a heart to me. It's Pluto.


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Posted: Jul 18, 2015 - 7:56am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


 
did you make this or find it on the innernets? it is awesome.
I think the shape looks more like Pluto the Dog instead of the heart everyone sees.
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Posted: Jul 17, 2015 - 11:41am


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Posted: Jul 16, 2015 - 7:35am


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Posted: Jul 15, 2015 - 6:10pm

Views of Pluto Throughout the years

Views of Pluto throughout the years.
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Posted: Jul 15, 2015 - 6:05pm

 bokey wrote:
Good stuff, I was unaware that was going on. {#Arrowd}

 
A truly amazing mission. The spacecraft was launched almost 10 years ago, and took a pretty weird path to get to the Kuiper Belt. It was traveling so fast. Its fly by took only minutes, but it recorded an amazing amount of readings and photos. So much data, it will take it 16 months to transmit it all back to Earth.


ETA: The New Horizons Website.
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Posted: Jul 15, 2015 - 5:58pm

Good stuff, I was unaware that was going on. {#Arrowd}
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Posted: Jul 15, 2015 - 5:51pm

Pluto, Up Close and Personal

Pluto, up close and personal.
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Posted: Jul 15, 2015 - 5:49pm

Charon

Charon. Pluto's largest moon.
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Posted: Jul 15, 2015 - 9:16am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

I was actually hoping for some science! but I forgave him when I saw the beautiful jpeg plumes.

 
If you click on the image it takes you to his site where if you click on the image you get to the actual science.  I think the Kuiper Beltloops were my favorite.
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