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New Horizons Probe Finds Out Pluto's Bigger (and Icier) Than We Thought
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| July 13, 2015
| Alan Boyle
Posted on 07/13/2015 5:45:36 PM PDT by radu
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To: mowowie
Thanks. I think I’ve seen that before.
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:19:07 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: mowowie
Cool site!
Makes one feel very small in relation, doesn’t it?
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:26:52 PM PDT
by
radu
(May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
To: CaptainMorgantown
“This settles it. Time to make Pluto a planet again.”
I just put a deposit down on a time share there!
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:29:18 PM PDT
by
howlinhound
(Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
To: George from New England
You are comparing Pluto's diameter to the moon's radius. The earth's moon is larger.
Pluto is about 1473 miles in diameter. The moon is 2158 miles in diameter.
To: ETL
The speed of light, for those that don’t know, is 186,000 miles per second!What is it for those of us who do know?
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:33:29 PM PDT
by
pfflier
To: radu
I’ve always been amazed that Pluto was even discovered. It’s so small and at the time it was discovered, we didn’t have the telescopes we have today.
Yea, but it's easy to spot that giant neon sign saying "Last chance for gas for the next 32,000 light years"
To: Cementjungle
Aaaaaaaaaah, so THAT’S how they spotted it! LOL!
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:41:08 PM PDT
by
radu
(May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
To: radu
and the Solar System is but a tiny tiny tiny little speck of the Milky Way.
amazing
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:49:19 PM PDT
by
mowowie
(`)
To: mowowie
I scrolled through his whole presentation a month ago. It was pretty interesting although interspersed with boring empty parts.
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:49:27 PM PDT
by
Sawdring
To: radu
Can it go back to being a planet now?
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:52:54 PM PDT
by
Personal Responsibility
(Changing the name of a thing doesn't change the thing. A liberal by any other name...)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:53:21 PM PDT
by
SunTzuWu
To: radu
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:54:01 PM PDT
by
The Toll
To: pfflier
What is it for those of us who do know? The speed of light, for those that DO know, is 1 million miles in about 5.3 seconds.
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:57:04 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: mowowie
And the Milky Way is but a tiny tiny tiny little speck of the universe.
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:58:47 PM PDT
by
radu
(May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
To: ETL
Lol! But light does actually “curve” around extremely massive objects due to gravitational effects. It’s called “gravitational lensing”.
The freaky part is that the light is traveling in a straight line; its space itself bending due to gravitational effect.
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:59:00 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
To: Flick Lives
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:59:46 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Personal Responsibility
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posted on
07/13/2015 7:03:48 PM PDT
by
radu
(May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
To: ETL
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posted on
07/13/2015 7:13:24 PM PDT
by
pfflier
To: cripplecreek
I saw a video someone posted this morning of the program simulation sped up about 100 times I suppose. I was hoping that the simulation would be available in real time as well.
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posted on
07/13/2015 7:20:31 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: Rodamala
The real time simulation is available with NASAeyes. This is what I'm getting in real time. If I toggle "Preview" it will speed through the rest of the mission".>br>
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posted on
07/13/2015 7:30:33 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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