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New Horizons Aims to Put Its Stamp on HistoryBethesda MD (SPX) Feb 03, 2012 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 flyby are well under way - and now, so is an effort to petition the U.S. Postal Service to commemorate the historic achievements of New Horizons on a stamp. The mission team launches that petition today, in early 2012, and plans to submit the petitioners' names and a formal proposal to the U.S. post office kno ... read 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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 Starlight study shows Pluto's chilly twin Sky-watchers reported on Wednesday that a small planet in deep space that triggered one of the fiercest controversies in modern astronomy appears to be a colder "twin" of Pluto. ... more | .. |
 New Horizons App Now Available The team behind NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt has launched a free app that takes iPhone and iPad users along on this historic voyage to the planetary frontier. Now a ... more | .. |
 Dwarf planet may not be bigger than Pluto The dwarf planet Eris, responsible for Pluto's demotion from planet status in 2006, is not bigger than Pluto and may even be smaller, French scientists say. ... more | .. |
 Series of bumps sent Uranus into its sideways spin Uranus's highly tilted axis makes it something of an oddball in our Solar System. The accepted wisdom is that Uranus was knocked on its side by a single large impact, but new research to be presente ... more |
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 Mission to Mysterious Uranus Earlier this year, the Planetary Science Decadal Survey recommended that NASA consider sending a mission to the planet Uranus. With all the attention paid to Mars, Jupiter, and even poor little Plut ... more | .. |
 Spinning hourglass object may be the first of many to be discovered in the Kuiper belt The bizarre, hourglass-shaped Kuiper belt object 2001QG298 spins round like a propeller as it orbits the Sun, according to an astronomer from Queens University Belfast. The discovery that the ... more | .. |
Dwarf Planet Mysteries Beckon to New Horizons At this very moment one of the fastest spacecraft ever launched - NASA's New Horizons - is hurtling through the void at nearly one million miles per day. Launched in 2006, it has been in flight long ... more | .. |
 The PI's Perspective: Visiting Four Moons, in Just Four Years, for All Mankind New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now approximately 21 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is - well on its way, between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. On July 1, we completed ... more |
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 Citizen Scientists Discover a New Horizons Flyby Target The world is invited to help discover a potential new, icy follow-on destination for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, using the Ice Hunters website. New Horizons is currently en route to make the fir ... more | .. |
 View from the Summit: Hunting for KBOs at the Top of the World John Spencer is a member of the New Horizons mission science team, and the coordinator and self-described "cat-herder-in-chief" for the effort to find a Kuiper Belt object flyby target for New Horiz ... more | .. |
 NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite - temporarily designated P4 - was uncovered in a Hubble survey sear ... more | .. |
Hubble telescope spots tiny fourth moon near Pluto Astronomers using NASA's powerful Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a tiny fourth moon around Pluto, the smallest ever glimpsed around the icy dwarf planet, the US space agency said Wednesday. ... more |
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 Neptune Completes First Orbit Since Discovery In 1846 Today, Neptune has arrived at the same location in space where it was discovered nearly 165 years ago. To commemorate the event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken these "anniversary pictures" ... more | .. |
 Clocking The Spin of Neptune By tracking atmospheric features on Neptune, a UA planetary scientist has accurately determined the planet's rotation, a feat that had not been previously achieved for any of the gas planets in our ... more | .. |
Scientist accurately gauges Neptune's spin Neptune's rate of rotation has been accurately determined, something extremely difficult to do with the solar system's gas giant planets, U.S. astronomers say. ... more | .. |
 Williams and MIT Astronomers Observe Pluto and its Moons A Williams College team of astronomers, headed by Bryce Babcock and Jay Pasachoff, have been in Hawaii, near Honolulu, to observe a rare double-double event about Pluto. On June 23rd, they observed ... more |
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 SOFIA Successfully Observes Challenging Pluto Occultation On June 23, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) observed the dwarf planet Pluto as it passed in front of a distant star. This event, known as an "occultation," allowed sc ... more | .. |
 You Can Hunt for Icy Worlds A team at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has developed a new website, IceHunters, to challenge the public to discover Kuiper Belt objects in the outer solar system. It is hoped that among ... more | .. |
 Public Invited to Find Destination for New Horizons The world is invited to help discover a potential new, icy follow-on destination for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, using the IceHunters.org website. New Horizons is currently en route to make the ... more | .. |
'Dwarf planet' is covered in crystal ice A bizarre mini-planet that orbits the Sun in deep space is covered with crystallised water, European astronomers reported on Thursday. ... more |
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