http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/in-5-days-well-see-pluto-up-close-for-the-first-time-in-history/ar-AAcLlqd?ocid=iehp

---

Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

Very much looking forward to
seeing this one happen.

---

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/in-5-days-well-see-pluto-up-close-for-the-first-time-in-history/ar-AAcLlqd?ocid=iehp

Sounds good Uli.

---

The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

To him it will always be a planet.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/plutos-discoverers-ashes-will-be-the-first-human-remains-to-leave-the-solar-system-%e2%80%94-glued-to-the-side-of-a-space-probe/ar-AAcLEUk?ocid=iehp

---

Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

Uli...I saw Pluto addressed on some news story or other the other day as..
The mini-planet and her moons.

Hope that helps a bit..
Meow, Uli.

---

"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Not surprized you started this thread. I was about to. Here is a direct like to the NASA New Horizons Page. The closest approach is still 3 days away.

I just looked at the picture of Pluto and Charon. WOW!!!
I sure hope they get a lot closer pics.
But at least we have a clear picture of both.

And Pluto is a planet. By the IAU own definition Earth isnt a planet nor is Jupiter.
It has to be round due to gravity. Orbit the Sun. And clear its orbit of debris.
I ask you what planet has cleared out debris? Erath hasnt, We still have the NEO's. Jupiter gets whacked pretty regular with space rocks. So obviously it hasnt cleard out ots space yet. So why is Pluto not a planet?
Id say any thing that is round by gravity and orbits the Sun is a planet. Forget the IAU.

---

[/quote]

Old James

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/in-5-days-well-see-pluto-up-close-for-the-first-time-in-history/ar-AAcLlqd?ocid=iehp

I saw this story a while back, before I came back to the group and thought of you Uli.

---

-"Young" James

"To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like." -Steven Hawking

New Horizons Closest Approach to Pluto: 7:49:57 a.m. EDT, July 14, 2015
2 more days and 15 hours.
Here is yesterday's picture

Just posted in Science (non-SETI). Since it's Uli's thread posting here also. :)

New Horizons: Last view of Pluto's spots


The four dark spots' intrigue is their regular spacing and size

Take a good look at the latest picture of Pluto because it shows the face of the dwarf planet that will not be seen during next week's historic flyby.

The US space agency's New Horizons probe was less than 2.5 million km from the diminutive world on Saturday and closing in fast.

Come Tuesday, it will be grabbing shots from an altitude of just 12,500km.

But the newly published image, showing Pluto's "spots", is of the hemisphere that will soon rotate out of view.

It will not be seen again until after New Horizons has gone behind the 2,300km-wide dwarf, and then only in the faint light reflected off the little planet's biggest moon, Charon.

That in itself should make for some fascinating science, however, because it will tell researchers what happens on Pluto's dark side.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33496883

Now where is that Jump system that BSG used when We need it? NASA could put a probe in Pluto orbit quicker than greased lightning, if NASA had a system like that...

Heck a manned expedition to Mars could get there, orbit the planet Mars and get home fairly quickly.

---

The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Pluto

Blame it all on finding Eris!! Everything was fine up until 2005! The Astronomers Trade Union (IAU) rewrote the rule book, and card carrying Members agreed.

Well Eris is round due to gravity and orbits the sun. I say its a planet. And any others they find that fit the bill are planets also. And it wasnt unanimous amongst the IAU either. There still is a lot of rancor among them.

---

[/quote]

Old James

Thank you Fred and all Mods for allowing this to stay here.

---

Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

Alright Mr. NASA, I'm ready for my close-up.

---

I bet some of the darker areas on
Pluto, are liquid helium lakes!

---

New Horizons Probe Finds Out Pluto's Bigger (and Icier) Than We Thought

LAUREL, Md. — With less than a day to go before NASA's New Horizons mission zooms past Pluto, scientists reported on Monday that the dwarf planet isn't quite as dwarfish as they thought — in fact, it's the largest known solar system object beyond Neptune.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/new-horizons-probe-finds-out-plutos-bigger-icier-we-thought-n391321

New Horizons Probe Finds Out Pluto's Bigger (and Icier) Than We Thought

LAUREL, Md. — With less than a day to go before NASA's New Horizons mission zooms past Pluto, scientists reported on Monday that the dwarf planet isn't quite as dwarfish as they thought — in fact, it's the largest known solar system object beyond Neptune.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/new-horizons-probe-finds-out-plutos-bigger-icier-we-thought-n391321

It would be nice if Pluto were a planet once more, officially, I think the IAU acted hastily...

---

The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

There's this pic here from the website spacereloaded.com ought to wet yer whistle some, someone at NASA made this, pretty cool and now Pluto might be bigger than Eris and yet Eris might be more massive than Pluto.

North Pole of Pluto..

---

The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Looks like Google is honnoring Pluto too.

looking at that last photo Pluto has an atmoshere. Thin yes but thats a great picture.

---

[/quote]

Old James