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Planets beyond Pluto. - Planets beyond Pluto are in the Kuiper Belt
of comets, asteroids and sub-planets.
Our new Horizon spacecraft is exploring these objects and is due to
reach them in January,2019. This same
spacecraft passed Pluto in 2006
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- Planets beyond Pluto
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- Planets beyond Pluto are in the Kuiper Belt
of comets, asteroids and sub-planets.
Our new Horizon spacecraft is exploring these objects and is due to
reach them in January,2019. This same
spacecraft passed Pluto in 2006.
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- To learn more :
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birth of my Universe.
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- visiting Neptune and Triton
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visiting Uranus
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visiting Pluto
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visiting planets beyond Pluto written October 24, 2018
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- Kuiper Belt Objects written March 11, 2014
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Name the tenth planet? Written
August 14, 2005
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- Light from electricity and
magnetism, February 2, 2004
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10 - The age of the spiritual machines. Written June 17, 2003
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- This Review is visiting the sub planets in
the Kuiper Belt of asteroids. The next
rendezvous is to be the KBO MU69 asteroid on January 2019. This region of our solar system supports a
large population of terrestrial and dwarf planets.
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- MU60 was our first discovered in 2014 using
the Hubble Telescope. MU69 has a
circular orbit taking 296 years at 44.4 astronomical units from the Sun. One Astronomical Unit is the Earth -Sun
distance of 93 million miles.
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- MU69 orbit inclines just 2.5 degrees from the
plane of the solar system. Its diameter
is estimated to be 12 to 25 miles.
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- Horizon hopes to pass MU69 within 2,175
miles. The flyby will occur at 33,000
miles per hour. MU69 may have moons of
its own. If so the wobble caused by the
orbiting gravity pull of the satellites will allow astronomers to calculate the
mass and density of MU69.
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- The communications with Horizon has a 12 hour
round trip delay. The travel time of
light and radio signals. This will
present a challenge for course corrections coming from the Space Center.
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- The first images should begin arriving this
month, August, 2018. The Space Center is
planning up to six possible course corrections with engine firings to target
the wanted intercept.
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- The flyby in January 2019 will be so quick
for an object this small allowing only a few days to record the entire
visit. All seven instruments on board
will record all the science collected.
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- If
successful the flyby could record resolutions as good as 100 feet per
pixel. It should be able to detect
satellite moons down to 1/2 mile in diameter.
The smallest moon detected around Pluto was 10 by 5 by 6 miles across.
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- Horizon only has a 30 watt transmitter and it
is 4,000,000,000 miles away. It will
take 22 months to download all the data that is collected. That will take us to the fall of 2020.
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- Horizon will continue its mission and will
study more than 24 Kuiper Belt other objects on its journey out of the solar
system. After that Horizon will be
studying The Sun's distant heliosphere using an ultraviolet spectrometer.
plasma, and dust detectors.
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- The engineering was so good on Horizon that
it should be operational for 20 more years well into the boundary of
interstellar space. Beyond Kuiper Belt objects
Horizon is prepared to study extragalactic background light, microlensing, and
variable stars.
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- The Kuiper Belt contains thousands of objects
that w cannot study from Earth. They are
too small and too far away. This is our
big chance to learn as much as we can.
It is like pebbles of knowledge on the beach with whole ocean of the unknown in front of us.
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- October 24, 2018.
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