@Smith5775 @RepLuna Because it won't work. The engine is broken, nor is there even enough fuel to do it even if it wasn't
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Tod R. Lauer
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Tod R. Lauer
@TodLauer
Extragalactic Astronomy and Spacebased Imaging
Tucson, AZ Katılım Kasım 2014
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@RepLuna Why wouldn't they ? The satellite has already done more than expected
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I’m urging NASA to extend the Juno mission to study interstellar object 31/ATLAS. Thank you Avi Loeb for your continued dedication to exploring our universe. We must seize this opportunity for groundbreaking discovery.
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@TruthAsISeeIt23 @RepLuna It was discovered and observed extensively by several Earth-based telescopes.
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@RepLuna We have no telescope that can reveal this rock, yet we know it’s there? 🤔
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@Bensam123TV @RepLuna @CommunityNotes @NASA Loeb proposed an escape trajectory that requires Del V ~2.7 km/s, or 2x what is available (at best). Grok just repeats Loeb's paper. The proposal is not feasible.
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@RepLuna So this got @CommunityNotes, and thought it was pretty unimaginative/simple considering all the trajectories/slingshots you can do to maneuver craft and put it through Grok.
Grok disagrees, it could probably catch up with it. I'd wait for @NASA response.
x.com/i/grok/share/m…
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This is where we are. The interstellar navigation approach says that NH must be at the intersection of the two lines. (You can only see where the given star is in you're on its line.) The intersection falls right on the known trajectory from DSN tracking. The method works!
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These are the two stars that we used: Wolf 359 (L) and Proxima Centauri (R). These are simultaneous images from Earth and New Horizons on April 23, 2020.
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New Horizons is so far away that the nearest stars have shifted markedly from where we see them on Earth. With NH-based positions for two stars alone we can figure out where the spacecraft is. This technique would be used on interstellar voyages. arxiv.org/abs/2506.21666
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Telescope is hard at work tonight. Can you tell what I'm shooting? (You can barely make it out in the sky)
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@TheSpaceshipper The planet of Dune was dark and grim. Tatooine was a much, much better version of Dune.
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David Lynch's Dune was released 40 years ago today!
Four decades later, what do you think of this first adaptation of Dune? Is it your favorite, or the opposite?
Personally, I like the craziness of it. 👌
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@JPMajor And with it's higher albedo it ends up providing the same amount of light to Pluto as the Moon does to the Earth.
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Turns out Pluto might offer the most impressive view of a moon from the surface in the Solar System (as long as you’re on the side that faces it of course)
Jason Major@JPMajor
From the surface of Pluto, Charon would appear 8x larger in the sky than the Moon does from Earth (comparison below.) And like our Moon, Charon always aims the same face at Pluto. But it's also always in the same place in the sky since both worlds are mutually tidally locked.
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@tribelaw As an astronomer who has greatly enjoyed your posts on major legal and constitutional issues, I'm delighted to see your curiosity for the things that we fiddle with.
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Amazing photo of Phobos crossing the Sun 🌑☀️
Black Hole@konstructivizm
Perseverance captured the flyby of Phobos against the backdrop of the Sun. NASA
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Plutón y Caronte -aún lo estoy buscando- vistos tras el sobrevuelo de la New Horizons. He fijado las estrellas de fondo para notar el movimiento aparente del planeta.
MISSION NEW HORIZONS
Target: #PLUTO
DISTANCE: 15608149 km
2015-07-27
opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/insthos…
NASA/JPL/j.Roger
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@landru79 @Earth_Forecast It's not LORRI, but a mosaic of several MVIC pan frames.
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@Earth_Forecast Es que el otro día vi de nuevo esta imagen x.com/TodLauer/statu… y aún no la he encontrado en los datos raw. Me baje una secuencia de la LORRI a ver si lo encontraba...
Tod R. Lauer@TodLauer
@ThePlanetaryGuy Here's another one to go with it. Note the Pluto-shine lighting up Charon, which is likewise mostly night-side, but for the thin crescent of solar illumination.
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@ThePlanetaryGuy Here's another one to go with it. Note the Pluto-shine lighting up Charon, which is likewise mostly night-side, but for the thin crescent of solar illumination.
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Just thought I'd share a pretty picture of NGC 1310 right now. IYKYK.
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It’s that time of year:
Thanksgiving With The Kranzes
restored and remastered from a DVD quality copy!
youtu.be/BMbjA-McYBQ?si…
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I guessed the wrong author for this paper..:)
SPACE.com@SPACEdotcom
The fastest-moving stars in the galaxy may be piloted by intelligent aliens, new paper suggests trib.al/TlULn2I
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Now commencing that Twitter using training AI models is, should not we plan use complete garbage grammar on it in order turning Musk's AI competence to incompetence total? Plan good?
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Movies I'm watching: Planet of The Apes, Wargames, Casablanca, The Dead Zone.
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@j_q_balter @tribelaw Of course, and the proof can be given in about 30s.
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A mathematician has discovered a new prime number 41 million digits long. The latest find, Scientific American reported, overturned the former record holder for the longest prime number after a full six years of searching, making it “far beyond human intelligibility.”
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