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Some fun stuff expected in 2016 in astrophysics...
January 12, 2016 at 12:53 pm
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- Russia and the European Space Agency will launch ExoMars on March 14th, 2016 which will enter Martian orbit on December 2016, atmosphere of Mars, looking for methane - where does it comes from? Possibly even from some sort of life on Mars? It will also prepare the way for rover which will be sent in 2018
-New Horizons will still send more data with many new sensational findings. Geology of Pluto and atmosphere are expected to be more understood.
- Juno spacecraft will come to Jupiter on July 4th, after 4 years of travel. It will try to find out if Jupiter has a rocky core underneath all that gass. We will have more chances to have a better look at those moons around Jupiter. For instance today on Earth we already have such powerful telescopes that we can actually see volcanic activities on Io. Galileo was, so far, the only craft that flew around Jupiter and also ended 12 years ago. So it will be interesting to see those moons again. Juno will also investigate Jupiter's magnetosphere.
-Dawn probe is also on a verge of detecting that there is steam going on above dwarf planet Ceres which would be a big deal and could be the biggest discovery of the year.
-Work will still be done on James Webb Space Telescope which costs 8 billion USD and will be launched in 2018.
-OSIRIS-REx will be launched in September by NASA. OSIRIS-REx will be traveling to the asteroid Bennu, take a sample and come back to Earth in 2023.
- Rosetta spacecraft (ESA) is expected to end in September this year because it doesn't have fuel anymore and it will probably crash land on the comet it's orbiting, but not before scientists try to contact little lander Philae that probably has lot of interesting data in it.
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RE: Some fun stuff expected in 2016 in astrophysics...
January 12, 2016 at 12:59 pm
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Osiris-Rex: coolest name for a spacecraft ever.
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RE: Some fun stuff expected in 2016 in astrophysics...
January 12, 2016 at 2:18 pm
Thanks for the summary!
There have also been some rumors that the LIGO gravitational wave observatories might have seen something that would be published this year. It's probably a ruse, but if it's true ...
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RE: Some fun stuff expected in 2016 in astrophysics...
January 14, 2016 at 11:39 am
Mean while in religion - All these scientists are doing satans work....
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RE: Some fun stuff expected in 2016 in astrophysics...
April 20, 2016 at 11:15 pm
(since this is a scientifical thread and not religious, and the topic is specifically noted as being relevant to 2016, so all posters here were forewarned, I'm posting an interesting update to the Dawn mission)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/208...and-vesta/
The Dawn management team is proposing a follow on mission for the probe now orbiting Ceres. They are keeping the destination secret for now, presumably it is NOT Pallas, and the on board fuel situation on the craft would preclude orbiting a third object regardless of which one it is. So just a flyby. The onboard imaging system was carefully designed to compliment the other instruments on the craft in that a long focal length was not needed since the other instruments needed very close proximity to the targets to function. The implication of this camera lens is that for high resolution images, (like we are accustomed to seeing) any flyby would have to be very close. Hopefully they have found a 'rock' that is closely approachable with the remaining fuel reserve, and the imaging system can get some good close ups.
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RE: Some fun stuff expected in 2016 in astrophysics...
April 20, 2016 at 11:17 pm
(January 12, 2016 at 12:59 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Osiris-Rex: coolest name for a spacecraft ever.
The jesus freaks would lose their minds... if they ever read anything sciency.
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RE: Some fun stuff expected in 2016 in astrophysics...
April 20, 2016 at 11:35 pm
(April 20, 2016 at 11:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: (January 12, 2016 at 12:59 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Osiris-Rex: coolest name for a spacecraft ever.
The jesus freaks would lose their minds... if they ever read anything sciency.
I'm sure they'll get around to that once they've bothered to read their own bullshit. Any day now...
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RE: Some fun stuff expected in 2016 in astrophysics...
April 28, 2016 at 8:44 am
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(April 20, 2016 at 11:35 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: (April 20, 2016 at 11:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The jesus freaks would lose their minds... if they ever read anything sciency.
I'm sure they'll get around to that once they've bothered to read their own bullshit. Any day now...
Yeah until September when it gets launched on TV and until then (this is from Christian astronomy book):
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RE: Some fun stuff expected in 2016 in astrophysics...
April 28, 2016 at 9:27 am
They think Uranus is a Roman god?!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
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RE: Some fun stuff expected in 2016 in astrophysics...
April 28, 2016 at 11:17 am
I'm thinking uranus is wonderfully ripe for the picking . . . .
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