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New Horizons Reaches the Final 4 AULaurel MD (SPX) Mar 03, 2014 New Horizons sailed past another milepost today when the NASA spacecraft moved to within four astronomical units (AU) of Pluto - which is less than four times the distance between the Earth and the sun, or about 371 million miles (598 million kilometers). "We're as close to the Pluto system now as Earth ever gets to Jupiter, a first for any spacecraft," says New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colo. "And hold on to your hat, it just g ... read more |
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 Robotic Exploration of Moon, Mars a Priority Opportunity Mars Rover Exploring Murray Ridge Area Russia to launch three lunar rovers from 2016 to 2019 China to launch first "space shuttle bus" this year A small step toward discovering habitable earths Spiral galaxy spills blood and guts | .. |
 The Sounds of New Horizons What does New Horizons say when it calls home? Nothing, without the help of software that transforms zeros and ones from New Horizons' computers into images, instrument readings, or useful informati ... more | .. |
 On the Path to Pluto, 5 AU and Closing Pluto isn't quite the next exit on New Horizons' voyage through the outer solar system, but the destination is definitely getting closer. Today the NASA spacecraft speeds to within five astron ... more | .. |
 SwRI study finds that Pluto satellites' orbital ballet may hint of long-ago collisions A large impact 4 billion years ago may account for the puzzling orbital configuration among Pluto's five known satellites, according to a new model developed by planetary scientists from Southwest R ... more | .. |
 Archival Hubble Images Reveal Neptune's "Lost" Inner Moon Neptune's tiny, innermost moon, Naiad, has now been seen for the first time since it was discovered by Voyager's cameras in 1989. Dr. Mark Showalter, a senior research scientist at the SETI Institut ... more |
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 New Horizons - Late in Cruise, and a Binary Ahoy New Horizons has just completed a summer of intensive activities and entered hibernation on Aug. 20. The routine parts of the activities included thorough checkouts of all our backup systems (result ... more | .. |
 Pluto Science Conference Exceeds Expectations Compressing eight decades of discoveries into five days, more than 100 scientists met last week at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., to talk everything Pluto - what ... more | .. |
 SciTechTalk: Grab your erasers, there are more moons than we thought Quick: What's the total number of moons orbiting planets in our solar system? Don't worry if the answer's not on the tip of your tongue but it's still the Trivial Pursuit sort of question that's fun for a water cooler session at the office. ... more | .. |
 NASA Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the giant planet. The moon, designated S/2004 N 1, is esti ... more |
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NASA finds new moon on Neptune A tiny new moon has been spotted circling Neptune - the 14th known to be orbiting the faraway planet, the US space agency said on Monday. ... more | .. |
 A Giant Moon for the Ninth Planet This week the New Horizons mission team is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto's largest and "first" moon, Charon. This discovery was made in 1978 by U.S. Naval Observatory as ... more | .. |
Kerberos and Styx: Welcome to the Pluto System The names of Pluto's two smallest known moons, previously referred to as "P4" and "P5," have been formally approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). P4 has been named Kerberos, after t ... more | .. |
 New Horizons Team Sticking to Original Flight Plan at Pluto Unless significant new hazards are found, expect NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to stay on its original course past Pluto and its moons, after mission managers concluded that the danger posed by dus ... more |
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 Planning Accelerates For Pluto Encounter All exploration comes with both rewards and risks. Back in 2005 and 2006, when Pluto's second and third moons (Nix and Hydra) were discovered, searches by astronomers for still more moons didn't rev ... more | .. |
 'Vulcan' wins Pluto moon name vote In a voting campaign to pick names for two of Pluto's smallest moons one clear winner is "Vulcan," proposed by U.S. actor William Shatner of "Star Trek" fame. ... more | .. |
 Public to vote on names for Pluto moons The U.S.-led team that discovered two new moons of the dwarf planet Pluto says they're asking the public to vote on potential names for the distant worlds. ... more | .. |
 The PI's Perspective: The Seven-Year Itch It's been seven years since New Horizons' launch on Jan. 19, 2006, and our spacecraft remains healthy and on course. We're more than halfway between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. In fact, we're ... more |
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 New Horizons Gets a New Year's Workout Like many of us, New Horizons is starting the new year with a workout regimen. After six months of cruising quietly through the outer solar system, NASA's Pluto-bound spacecraft came out of hibernat ... more | .. |
 Halfway Between Uranus and Neptune, New Horizons Cruises On Today the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft passed the halfway point between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, zooming past another milepost on its historic trek to the planetary frontier. New Hor ... more | .. |
 Dwarf planet Makemake lacks atmosphere Dwarf planet Makemake [1] is about two thirds of the size of Pluto, and travels around the Sun in a distant path that lies beyond that of Pluto but closer to the ... more | .. |
 At Pluto, Moons and Debris May Be Hazardous to New Horizons Spacecraft During Flyby NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now almost seven years into its 9.5-year journey across the solar system to explore Pluto and its system of moons. Just over two years from now, in January 2015, Ne ... more |
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 Keck Observations Bring Weather Of Uranus Into Sharp Focus In 1986, when Voyager swept past Uranus, the probe's portraits of the planet were "notoriously bland," disappointing scientists, yielding few new details of the planet and its atmosphere, and giving ... more | .. |
 Sharpest-ever Ground-based Images of Pluto and Charon: Proves a Powerful Tool for Exoplanet Discoveries Despite being infamously demoted from its status as a major planet, Pluto (and its largest companion Charon) recently posed as a surrogate extrasolar planetary system to help astronomers produce exc ... more | .. |
 The Kuiper Belt at 20: Paradigm Changes in Our Knowledge of the Solar System New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now more than 24 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is. This summer's spacecraft and payload checkout went extremely well, as did both major flight-so ... more | .. |
 e2v To Supply Large CMOS Imaging Sensors For Imaging Kuiper Belt Objects TAOS II will measure the size distribution of small objects (~1 km diameter) at the edge of our solar system in the Kuiper Belt and beyond. These objects are of scientific interest because the ... more |
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