An artist’s conception of New Horizons
passing Pluto and Charon.
Credit: NASA/JHU APL/SwRI/Steve Gribben
Where were you in 1930?
If you were American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, you were announcing the discovery of a curious object caught moving through the constellation Gemini just the month prior. [Read more...]
New Horizons Set to Buzz the Pluto System
Pluto and Charon… in color!
(Credit: NASA/JPL)
(Editor’s Note: This week’s event was hatched as part of our “legacy post project” in October 2009, entitled “12 Very Special Events for the 21st Century.” They’re a time capsule of sorts, meant to carry on the Astroguyz legacy!)
One of the last outposts of the solar system is about to become known. 3463 days after launch, the New Horizons spacecraft is set to whiz by the Pluto-Charon system at a blazing 14 kilometers a second. Launched in 2006, flyby will occur on July 14th 2015. [Read more...]