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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2012, 08:53:53 PM »
I'm rather interested (as I mentioned in IRC) as to why this moon isn't in S/2011 P 1's discovery images (or any of the other undisclosed images for that matter)

The exact same Hubble imager was used.

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2012, 10:58:19 PM »
>foxnews
surprised it's not in /scifi/ category

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2012, 04:01:47 AM »
Lol Faux News. Surprised that propaganda channel didn't cut out the part where the scientists said "billions of years ago" from the article. :P

Anyway, interesting.

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/32/

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2012, 04:35:07 AM »
kolkute, pluto is like a mini solar system. so many moons

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2012, 11:22:48 AM »
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/32/
Why does this not have more than two images?

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2012, 11:44:59 AM »
I guess there aren't that many images yet. It was just discovered, and you probably need very high tech cameras/telescopes and long exposure times and computer power/post processing to make the images, I could imagine.

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2012, 12:57:18 PM »
I remember reading that there was a telescope out there meant to image Pluto.  When I read it the scope hadn't actually reached Pluto yet.

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2012, 01:03:11 PM »
I guess there aren't that many images yet. It was just discovered, and you probably need very high tech cameras/telescopes and long exposure times and computer power/post processing to make the images, I could imagine.
It says they took 9 sets of images. That means at least 9 images. And logically at least 18. I don't believe there's more than a few for S/2011 P 1 either, and it's been a year.

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2012, 03:16:44 PM »
OMG
its so tiny and already is polygamous!!11!1!

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2012, 03:32:07 PM »
I remember reading that there was a telescope out there meant to image Pluto.  When I read it the scope hadn't actually reached Pluto yet.

New Horizons? It's a satellite that's supposed to reach Pluto by 2015.

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2012, 03:58:24 PM »
at jupiter, new horizones transmit info at 38kb/s, at pluto, only 1kb/s :O
the high resolution images it sends back will take 9 months to send! kol

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2012, 05:29:37 PM »
kol, i read the faux news article and it sounded bitchy about the moon

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2012, 07:41:04 PM »

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2012, 01:02:21 AM »
Providing there is more viable images, I remember reading a Bad Astronomy blog where Phil Plait explained that the Hubble website retains images taken by the telescope for a year to study by scientists so that the website doesn't get overloaded and so that scientists have enough time to study what they shot.  After a year, they release the images to the public.

You'll have to search through his old logs to confirm, but that's the gist.  Either they're studying it before making a pronouncement, or there's just nothing viable.

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #15 on: July 22, 2012, 01:45:06 AM »
Well that's kind of stupid. The Cassini mission releases images the day they are received on Earth.

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #16 on: July 24, 2012, 12:58:17 PM »
Pluto is just amazing, five and probebly more moons, yet smaller in diameter than America is wide.

I'm really looking forward to the pictures from new horizons.

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #17 on: July 25, 2012, 06:20:39 PM »
Considering how dim this and Pluto IV are, wouldn't it be likely that  the Pluto-Charon system has a [relatively] broad ring system that is ever so slightly out of the range of telescopes right now?

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Re: Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered
« Reply #18 on: July 26, 2012, 09:20:20 AM »
Considering how dim this and Pluto IV are, wouldn't it be likely that  the Pluto-Charon system has a [relatively] broad ring system that is ever so slightly out of the range of telescopes right now?
Good question