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To All of You not only interested in SciFi but (Space) Science too.
*THE* NEW YEARS EVENT IN SPACE EXPLORATION
On Jan 01 2019 at 12:33am EST New Horizons passes the Kuiper Belt Object MU69 (aka "Ultima Thule") at a very close distance of about 3000 miles and a velocity of about 40.000m/h.
He're some links to follow this extraordinary event:
The official "countdown-page":
https://seeultimathulenow.com/
Timeline to media-events:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/...age=20181230-2
Video when - what - where:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Where-to-Watch.php
NASA-TV:
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public
LORRI-pics [RAW]:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/UltimaThule-Encounter/
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A last indepth blog post by Alan Stern before the flyby event:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/...?page=20181226
Planetary.org; Emily Lakdawalla Blog:
A very useful and actual blog post about "New Horizons":
http://planetary.org/blogs/emily-lak...ima-thule.html
Literally: "Where no man has gone before"
B5-Stefan
--
Stephen Hawking: "Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist."
*THE* NEW YEARS EVENT IN SPACE EXPLORATION
On Jan 01 2019 at 12:33am EST New Horizons passes the Kuiper Belt Object MU69 (aka "Ultima Thule") at a very close distance of about 3000 miles and a velocity of about 40.000m/h.
He're some links to follow this extraordinary event:
The official "countdown-page":
https://seeultimathulenow.com/
Timeline to media-events:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/...age=20181230-2
Video when - what - where:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Where-to-Watch.php
NASA-TV:
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public
LORRI-pics [RAW]:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/UltimaThule-Encounter/
************************************************** ****************
A last indepth blog post by Alan Stern before the flyby event:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/...?page=20181226
Planetary.org; Emily Lakdawalla Blog:
A very useful and actual blog post about "New Horizons":
http://planetary.org/blogs/emily-lak...ima-thule.html
Literally: "Where no man has gone before"
B5-Stefan
--
Stephen Hawking: "Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist."
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