It's almost like a cryogenic preservation chamber of what the solar system was like 4 billion years ago. It's a great way to get insight into the formation of the solar system. |
It's going to be challenging for New Horizons to fly though through Pluto's system and image all these moons. |
It's going to be challenging for New Horizons to fly through Pluto's system and image all these moons. |
That was somewhat surprising because ground-based observers had been trying for more than a decade to find new satellites around Pluto. But I felt almost certain even when I first saw them that they were real objects - not any sort of artifact - and that they were exhibiting orbital motion around Pluto. |
That was somewhat surprising because ground-based observers had been trying for more than a decade to find new satellites around Pluto. But I felt almost certain even when I first saw them that they were real objects – not any sort of artifact – and that they were exhibiting orbital motion around Pluto. |
They were sort of playing this game of peek-a-boo - jumping in and out of a strip of missing data. (The search) was almost an afterthought. It wasn't even a priority. The moment I discovered them, I wasn't even searching, to be honest. |