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'Vulcan' wins Pluto moon name voteMountain View, Calif. (UPI) Feb 25, 2013 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. Online ballot casting allowing the public to vote for the name of two recently discovered moons of the dwarf planet - for now known as just P4 and P5 - ended Friday, with Vulcan in first place followed by Cerberus. Although a late addition to the candidate names the public could vote on, Vulcan piled up a big ... read more |
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 Opportunity Rides Into History For Offworld Drive Cosmic Impact Sparked Devastating Climate Change NASA Launching Experiment to Examine the Beginnings of the Universe NASA Builds Unusual Testbed for Analyzing X-ray Navigation Technologies Next destination: space ORBCOMM Launches Its First Self-Powered M2M Tracking And Monitoring Device | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 Fly New Horizons through the Kuiper Belt A new computer simulation from NASA's New Horizons mission offers a look at the latest objects discovered in the distant Kuiper Belt - from the vantage point of the Pluto-bound spacecraft itself. ... more |
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 Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The moon is estimated to be irregular in shape and 6 to 15 m ... more | .. |
 Hubble telescope spots fifth moon near Pluto US astronomers have found a fifth moon orbiting far-away Pluto, NASA said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 New Horizons Doing Science in Its Sleep NASA's New Horizons, now almost 24 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is, is back in hibernation, a slumbering state in which it will remain until January 2013. But hibernation aboard the spacec ... more | .. |
 It's a Sim: Out in Deep Space, New Horizons Practices the 2015 Pluto Encounter The science instruments aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft were running at full tilt, with cameras snapping images, sensors scanning the space environment and the communications system trading ra ... more |
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Beyond Pluto And Exploring the Kuiper Belt New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now more than 23 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is. We will be 32.9 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is when we reach Pluto in three years, ... more | .. |
 Uranus auroras glimpsed from Earth For the first time, scientists have captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus, finding further evidence of just how peculiar a world that distant planet is. Detected by means of c ... more | .. |
 Herschel images extrasolar analogue of the Kuiper Belt New images from ESA's Herschel Space Observatory reveal the glow from dust in the debris disc - a structure resembling the Kuiper Belt in the primordial Solar System - around the young star Fomalhau ... more | .. |
 New Horizons on Approach: 22 AU Down, Just 10 to Go Few spacecraft travel 10 astronomical units during their entire mission. But with New Horizons already logging more than twice that distance on its way to Pluto, coming to within 10 AU of its main t ... more |
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 New Horizons Aims to Put Its Stamp on History New Horizons' flight to explore the Pluto system in July 2015 will be a historic accomplishment for the U.S. space program, for planetary science, and indeed for all humankind. Plans for the f ... more | .. |
New Horizons Works through Winter Wakeup New Horizons might be more than two billion miles from home, but the spacecraft has spent most of the new year at the fingertips of its operators. Since waking the spacecraft from hibernation ... more | .. |
 The Rings of Pluto In the distant outer Solar System, rings are nearly ubiquitous. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have rings, leaving Pluto as the only outer planet without rings. But PSI Senior Scient ... more | .. |
Just A Three Year Cruise Left Before Pluto Flyby Today - as we mark the sixth anniversary of our launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on January 19, 2006 - New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now more than 22 times as far ... more |
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 SwRI researchers discover new evidence for complex molecules on Pluto's surface The new and highly sensitive Cosmic Origins Spectrograph aboard the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a strong ultraviolet-wavelength absorber on Pluto's surface, providing new evidence that poi ... more | .. |
New Horizons Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Approach Pluto NASA's New Horizons mission reached a special milestone this past week on its way to reconnoiter the Pluto system, coming closer to Pluto than any other spacecraft. It's taken New Horizons 2,1 ... more | .. |
 Pluto's Hidden Ocean When NASA's New Horizons cruises by Pluto in 2015, the images it captures could help astronomers determine if an ocean is hiding under the frigid surface, opening the door to new possibilities for l ... more | .. |
Is the Pluto System Dangerous? New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now almost two times as far from the Sun as the Earth is, and approaching six years into its 9.5-year journey to the Pluto system. We've taken the s ... more |
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