New Horizons’ Pluto Flyby July 15, 2015 6:30am by Barry Ritholtz From NYT: The last image of Pluto sent back to Earth before New Horizons’ flyby. The photo was taken on Monday, July 13, from a distance of 476,000 miles. Source: NYT Spread the wealth. twitter facebook linkedin What's been said: Discussions found on the web: reedsch commented on Jul 15 Absolutely fabulous! Who’d have ever imagined we’d see such a thing. Surely we live in a magical age. DeDude commented on Jul 15 Looks to me like someone has been trowing dirt balls at Pluto and Charon http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33543383 I think Horizon is going to have to have a talk with the Kuiper Belt about that. formerlawyer commented on Jul 16 The black spot on Charon, Pluto’s moon has been nicknamed Mordor! https://www.facebook.com/NASA Xkcd on Pluto http://xkcd.com/1551/ Read this next.October 13, 2017 Succinct Summation of Week’s Events 10.13.17June 22, 2012 Top 5 RMBS Cases to Watch: No. 1March 18, 2011 Embrace Your Inner Statistician! Posted Under Science Previous Post The Long and Winding Recovery Next Post 10 Wednesday AM Reads
reedsch commented on Jul 15 Absolutely fabulous! Who’d have ever imagined we’d see such a thing. Surely we live in a magical age.
DeDude commented on Jul 15 Looks to me like someone has been trowing dirt balls at Pluto and Charon http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33543383 I think Horizon is going to have to have a talk with the Kuiper Belt about that.
formerlawyer commented on Jul 16 The black spot on Charon, Pluto’s moon has been nicknamed Mordor! https://www.facebook.com/NASA Xkcd on Pluto http://xkcd.com/1551/
Absolutely fabulous! Who’d have ever imagined we’d see such a thing. Surely we live in a magical age.
Looks to me like someone has been trowing dirt balls at Pluto and Charon
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33543383
I think Horizon is going to have to have a talk with the Kuiper Belt about that.
The black spot on Charon, Pluto’s moon has been nicknamed Mordor!
https://www.facebook.com/NASA
Xkcd on Pluto
http://xkcd.com/1551/