New Horizons: Voyage to Pluto.
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First colour image of the Pluto-Charon system taken from New Horizon:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150414
In a few weeks' time the quality of images taken from New Horizon will begin to exceed the best of Hubble's.
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150414
In a few weeks' time the quality of images taken from New Horizon will begin to exceed the best of Hubble's.
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From the Sun to Pluto and back to to the lens of the camera that took it would be my guess.
So that would be roughly about 6.7496 billion Km
So that would be roughly about 6.7496 billion Km
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roughly
Well it would depend on a number of factors one of which is how far past the 1AU point New Horizon is and where in relation to Earth Pluto is due to the fact the Pluto distance from Earth varies from 4.4 and 7.5 billion Km, my calculation assumes Pluto is at it's closest to Earth which is a massive assumption...
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No worse that Scotland in January I would imagine 
For those who don't know AU stands for astronomical unit and is the distance of the Earth from the Sun and is roughly 150 million Km and is used in the calculation of a parsec...
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Aaannnnyway. Pluto.
Are we there yet?
The nearest star to our Sun is 1.34 parsecs away
That's about the same distance that it is from us. What a coincidence.
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What with the hoo-ha press coverage triggered by Philae's wake up it's somewhat gone under the radar that New Horizon's now past the 30-day mark till fly-by day.
Here's one very weird indeed numerical simulation of one of Pluto's small moons with its apparently random rotation, obtained through a collection of data from Hubble. The tiny moon's comparatively insignificant gravity means its very rotation is almost entirely conditioned by whatever positions the Pluto-Charon system is in. If you were stood on its surface you'd have no idea where the sun's likely to rise or set. Is there anything weirder-looking in the solar system system?
Here's one very weird indeed numerical simulation of one of Pluto's small moons with its apparently random rotation, obtained through a collection of data from Hubble. The tiny moon's comparatively insignificant gravity means its very rotation is almost entirely conditioned by whatever positions the Pluto-Charon system is in. If you were stood on its surface you'd have no idea where the sun's likely to rise or set. Is there anything weirder-looking in the solar system system?
It's a giant jacket potato 
A giant space floater that won't flush.
New Horizons carried out its final course correction yesterday. It has also detected methane, which almost certainly means there will be cows living there.
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