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General Category => Astronomy & Science => Topic started by: Naru523 on July 11, 2012, 08:32:36 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/2012_P_1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/2012_P_1)
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/11/pluto-has-fifth-moon-hubble-telescope-reveals/ (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.
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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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>foxnews
surprised it's not in /scifi/ category
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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/ (http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/32/)
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kolkute, pluto is like a mini solar system. so many moons
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http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/32/ (http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/32/)
Why does this not have more than two images?
INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE
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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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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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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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OMG
its so tiny and already is polygamous!!11!1!
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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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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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kol, i read the faux news article and it sounded bitchy about the moon
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http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ (http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/)
1002 days
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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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Well that's kind of stupid. The Cassini mission releases images the day they are received on Earth.
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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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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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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