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  “Top 10″ Surprises from the Pluto Flyby Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 15:33 -0500
    Re: screwed up non-ASCII text jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-30 21:16 +0000

#529206 — “Top 10″ Surprises from the Pluto Flyby

“Top 10″ Surprises from the Pluto Flyby
> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/top-10-surprises-from-the-pluto-flyby/
> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/wp-content/uploads/Northern-Sputnik-Planum.jpg


> It sounds like science fiction, but it's not: NASA's New Horizons
> mission explored the Pluto system last summer — and here's my "top
> 10" list of what's surprised me the most about the results so far.
> (By the way, I didn't order this list below in terms of my "surprise
> factor.")

> No New Moons. I don't know about you, but I sure expected that we'd
> find more satellites circling Pluto. After finding four moons with
> successively deeper searches by the Hubble Space Telescope, I'm still
> amazed that our spacecraft searched with 20 to 30 times better
> sensitivity than Hubble and found nothing. Nada. Zip.
>
> Pluto is Bigger Than Eris. Before the flyby, Pluto's diameter was
> somewhat uncertain, with most estimates being between 2,300 and 2,400
> km (though some researchers put the lower limit down as far as 2,280
> km). By comparison, we knew the diameter of Eris is 2,326 ±12 km, and
> much of the safe money was on Pluto being the second biggest body in
> the Kuiper Belt. But now, thanks to images from New Horizons, we've
> measured Pluto's diameter accurately — it's 2,374 ±6 km — making
> Pluto the clear king of the Kuiper Belt.


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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> “Top 10″ Surprises from the Pluto Flyby
>> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/top-10-surprises-from-the-pluto-flyby/
>> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/wp-content/uploads/Northern-Sputnik-Planum.jpg
> 
> 
>> It sounds like science fiction, but it's not: NASA's New Horizons
>> mission explored the Pluto system last summer — and here's my "top
>> 10" list of what's surprised me the most about the results so far.
>> (By the way, I didn't order this list below in terms of my "surprise
>> factor.")
> 
>> No New Moons. I don't know about you, but I sure expected that we'd
>> find more satellites circling Pluto. After finding four moons with
>> successively deeper searches by the Hubble Space Telescope, I'm still
>> amazed that our spacecraft searched with 20 to 30 times better
>> sensitivity than Hubble and found nothing. Nada. Zip.
>>
>> Pluto is Bigger Than Eris. Before the flyby, Pluto's diameter was
>> somewhat uncertain, with most estimates being between 2,300 and 2,400
>> km (though some researchers put the lower limit down as far as 2,280
>> km). By comparison, we knew the diameter of Eris is 2,326 ±12 km, and
>> much of the safe money was on Pluto being the second biggest body in
>> the Kuiper Belt. But now, thanks to images from New Horizons, we've
>> measured Pluto's diameter accurately — it's 2,374 ±6 km — making
>> Pluto the clear king of the Kuiper Belt.
 
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