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New Horizons Ultima Thule Flyby
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New Horizons Ultima Thule Flyby
January 1, 2019 at 12:31 pm
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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RE: New Horizons Ultima Thule Flyby
January 1, 2019 at 12:43 pm
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.
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RE: New Horizons Ultima Thule Flyby
January 1, 2019 at 1:06 pm
(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!

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RE: New Horizons Ultima Thule Flyby
January 1, 2019 at 1:21 pm
'Ultima Thule' sounds like one of those sorcerers Conan the Barbarian was always having trouble with.

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RE: New Horizons Ultima Thule Flyby
January 1, 2019 at 1:27 pm
And now for the music Brian May recorded for such an occasion:



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RE: New Horizons Ultima Thule Flyby
January 1, 2019 at 1:31 pm
Nice work by everyone involve! Smile
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RE: New Horizons Ultima Thule Flyby
January 1, 2019 at 2:25 pm
(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!

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Let’s see how well your modem does from 6 billion miles away.
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RE: New Horizons Ultima Thule Flyby
January 1, 2019 at 2:37 pm
(January 1, 2019 at 2:25 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(January 1, 2019 at 1:06 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: NASA should update their modem!

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Let’s see how well your modem does from 6 billion miles away.

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RE: New Horizons Ultima Thule Flyby
January 1, 2019 at 2:38 pm
(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!

Hehe

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. Dodgy
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RE: New Horizons Ultima Thule Flyby
January 1, 2019 at 9:58 pm (This post was last modified: January 1, 2019 at 9:59 pm by bennyboy.)
Meh, I've seen pixels before. Not that excited by these ones.
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