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New Horizons Ultima Thule Flyby
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The New Horizons probe made its flyby of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule last night. The initial telemetry data received 6 plus hours later indicates everything went as planned. We should be getting the initial images later today. It is going to take about a year to downlink all the data. It takes a while at 1 kilobit per second.
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So far, best evidence still show Ultima Thule is a highly elongated object. Since it is unlikely the elongated object is rotationally symmetrical about its actual axis of rotation, or its rotational axis is stable and pointed directly at Pluto express, Its peculiar lack of rotational light curve remains unexplained.
 (January 1, 2019 at 12:31 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: The New Horizons probe made its flyby of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule last night. The initial telemetry data received 6 plus hours later indicates everything went as planned. We should be getting the initial images later today. It is going to take about a year to downlink all the data. It takes a while at 1 kilobit per second.NASA should update their modem! 
'Ultima Thule' sounds like one of those sorcerers Conan the Barbarian was always having trouble with.
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Nice work by everyone involve!
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Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud ..... after a while you realise that the pig likes it! (January 1, 2019 at 1:06 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(January 1, 2019 at 12:31 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: The New Horizons probe made its flyby of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule last night. The initial telemetry data received 6 plus hours later indicates everything went as planned. We should be getting the initial images later today. It is going to take about a year to downlink all the data. It takes a while at 1 kilobit per second.NASA should update their modem! Let’s see how well your modem does from 6 billion miles away.  (January 1, 2019 at 1:06 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(January 1, 2019 at 12:31 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: The New Horizons probe made its flyby of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule last night. The initial telemetry data received 6 plus hours later indicates everything went as planned. We should be getting the initial images later today. It is going to take about a year to downlink all the data. It takes a while at 1 kilobit per second.NASA should update their modem! one-thousand-bits every second over several billion miles (ca. 6 light-hours!), sent with the power equal to a refidgerator lightbulb. I have had modems worse than that. 
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