Fifth Moon of Pluto Discovered

[Naru523]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/2012_P_1

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/11/pluto-has-fifth-moon-hubble-telescope-reveals/

I'm rather interested on how Pluto's getting all these moons.

[atomic7732]

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.

[Darvince]

>foxnews
surprised it's not in /scifi/ category

[Bla]

Lol Faux News. Surprised that propaganda channel didn't cut out the part where the scientists said "billions of years ago" from the article.

Anyway, interesting.

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

[vh]

kolkute, pluto is like a mini solar system. so many moons

[atomic7732]

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

Why does this not have more than two images?

INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE

[Bla]

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.

[dhm794]

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.

[atomic7732]

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.

[Hellpotatoe]

OMG
its so tiny and already is polygamous!!11!1!

[Naru523]

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.

[vh]

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

[Darvince]

kol, i read the faux news article and it sounded bitchy about the moon

[atomic7732]

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/

1002 days

[ShoeUnited]

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.

[atomic7732]

Well that's kind of stupid. The Cassini mission releases images the day they are received on Earth.

[Danny2306]

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.

[Astronomical]

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?

[Hellpotatoe]

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