| Pluto's Heart |
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Saturday, July 11th, 2015 06:43:13 GMT |
With a Bit of Astrology |
Here's an article from Phys.org about Pluto's "heart", with a picture:
A quote from that article:
So maybe Pluto shouldn't be considered to be in debility in Libra and Taurus after all. :-)
(In astrology, usually Venus is considered the ruler of Libra and Taurus, and Venus is associated with love. ♥)New Horizons will swoop to within about 12,500 kilometers (nearly 7,750 miles) of Pluto's surface and about 17,900 miles (28,800 kilometers) from Charon during closest approach at approximately 7:49 a.m. EDT (11:49 UTC) on July 14.
As for the heart - well, I think it's adorable. :-)
| Pluto Flyby - New Horizons' Closest Approach - July 14, 2015, around 11:49 AM UT (7:49 AM EDT) |
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 09:24:15 GMT |
The New Horizons flyby of Pluto will (hopefully) reach its closest approach on July 14, 2015 at approximately 7:49 AM EDT (11:49 AM UT) - just hours from now.
And one article I stumbled across - Wired.com - New Horizons’ Finest Moment Could Be Its Hour of Destruction (posted July 13, 2015) - provides this remarkably exact time: "7:49:58 AM Eastern time"
And also says:
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory - New Horizons
Io9.com - This is What We've Learned About Pluto in the Past 24 Hours (July 13, 2015)
Quote:
The signal was received at precisely 8.52.37pm Eastern time.""With all sensors trained on Pluto, New Horizons won’t phone home for 21 straight hours."
Another link - New York Times - New Horizons' Pluto Flyby (July 14, 2015) - says in the last section of the animated slideshow near the top of the page:
"Confirmation that New Horizon survived the flyby is not expected until after 9:00 p.m., in part because signals from Pluto take four and a half hours to reach Earth."
More links:
BusinessInsider.com - Pluto Infographics (June 4, 2015)
Quoted from the last link:
"Pluto is 2,370 kilometers (1,473 miles) in diameter, give or take 20 kilometers. This makes it undisputedly larger than Eris, the second largest object in the Kuiper Belt at 2,336 kilometers with a potential error of +/- 12 kilometers, and ends a decade-long debate over which object
is larger."
However, Eris still has more mass. Another recent link:
"It’s worth noting that Pluto and Eris’ masses have been precisely known for some time — Eris is around one-third more massive than Pluto. By measuring the characteristics of moons orbiting both dwarf planets, an accurate mass can be calculated."
Addition, Aug. 9, 2015, 1:10 AM EDT: Quoted from this page from The Guardian:
"The New Horizons probe has made contact with Earth, proof that the spacecraft survived its historic flyby of Pluto.