RE: New Horizons Ultima Thule Flyby
January 2, 2019 at 5:41 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2019 at 5:59 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(January 2, 2019 at 5:26 pm)popeyespappy Wrote:(January 2, 2019 at 4:52 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: If so, then these two aren’t just the remnant of original accretionary objects like asteroids, but they are original accretionary objects.
We’ll see.
I believe that is what they were hoping for when they chose Ultima Thule for a flyby.
If we put the technical difficulties of finding and the sending New Horizon to image this object from earth into perspective, we can liken its discovery to finding a object approximately half the size of a Twix bar, with reflectivity similar to a Twix bar, illuminated by moon light, from 5000 miles away.
Having new horizon send back images of it can be likened to using transmitter transmitting with as much power as would be released if 1 average bacteria were to fall a distance of 1cm on earth gravity every second, and receiving the signal, differentiating it from background noise, and construct a image from the data it contains, from 5000 miles away.
Think of that. 12 watts. Received and interpreted 4.4 billion miles away.
