(06-23-2015 12:57 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(04-29-2015 12:22 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:45 PM)UCF08 Wrote:  Well, isnt pluto not really a planet? If thats the case id assume there are more objects of similar sizes out beyond it, yes? If not, the distinction doesnt matter and wouldnt have been made most likely.

Its a planet.

They have simply reclassified it as a ice dwarf planet.

The reason Pluto's classification was changed because its orbit is aligned with the Kuiper belt.

There are some other dwarf planets in the kuiper belt, and some are still waiting to be discovered.

that's awesome!

(06-23-2015 12:58 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(06-23-2015 12:57 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(04-29-2015 12:22 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:45 PM)UCF08 Wrote:  Well, isnt pluto not really a planet? If thats the case id assume there are more objects of similar sizes out beyond it, yes? If not, the distinction doesnt matter and wouldnt have been made most likely.

Its a planet.

They have simply reclassified it as a ice dwarf planet.

The reason Pluto's classification was changed because its orbit is aligned with the Kuiper belt.

There are some other dwarf planets in the kuiper belt, and some are still waiting to be discovered.

that's awesome!

haha scha-wing!

(05-29-2015 02:31 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(05-29-2015 01:55 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  

(05-29-2015 01:52 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  So Eris is a planet too?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet)

Did you not read your own link? Its classified as a dwarf planet/Minor planet as well.

Eris is the largest Dwarf planet as of today. I imagine Nasa will be sending something its way too.

Yes. So how many planets are there?

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This one's a little more hype. You might like it better.

(06-23-2015 11:35 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  I'm a bit surprised that we can't get better resolution yet, less than a month out. I guess it has to do with how relatively little light there is that far out from the sun.

You may be underestimating how far out it still is and how fast this thing is really moving.

Its the fastest moving object NASA has ever sent out.

Here's another shot just updated showing much better detail. I cant believe how much surface features Pluto and Charon have. Apparently its not simply a rock orb covered in ice.




http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nas...on-n379781

(06-23-2015 04:37 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Here's another shot just updated showing much better detail. I cant believe how much surface features Pluto and Charon have. Apparently its not simply a rock orb covered in ice.




http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nas...on-n379781

By far the best pic yet

Speaking of scale, it's crazy to think about the fact that those two objects are about 12,000 miles away from each other.

Quote:Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

13 : 17 : 30 : 42
New Horizons Closest Approach to Pluto: 7:49:57 a.m. EDT, July 14, 2015
Pluto
New Horizons Closes In, Returns New Images of Pluto and Charon



exactly two weeks out:

Happening now!! Join @NASANewHorizons scientists for a live Q&A session about Plto Flyby LIVE on Youtube Now!

People don't realize how fortune it is Jupiter is so massive. It acts like the cosmic vacuum cleaner, cleaning up the debris from the Kuiper Belt Pluto and Neptune sling into the inner solar system.

(06-30-2015 06:22 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  People don't realize how fortune it is Jupiter is so massive. It acts like the cosmic vacuum cleaner, cleaning up the debris from the Kuiper Belt Pluto and Neptune sling into the inner solar system.

Moreover it stabilizes the asteroid belt too.

(06-30-2015 06:22 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  People don't realize how fortune it is Jupiter is so massive. It acts like the cosmic vacuum cleaner, cleaning up the debris from the Kuiper Belt Pluto and Neptune sling into the inner solar system.

Yep, Jupiter is pretty much Earths' "guardian angle".

(07-01-2015 07:37 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(06-30-2015 06:22 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  People don't realize how fortune it is Jupiter is so massive. It acts like the cosmic vacuum cleaner, cleaning up the debris from the Kuiper Belt Pluto and Neptune sling into the inner solar system.

Yep, Jupiter is pretty much Earths' "guardian angle".

Its meant to be a symbol of the Messiah. Jupiter was the star of Bethlehem (in a conjunction with Venus) back in 2 BC.

Jupiter is the shepard that holds the other 7 major planets together (7 churches of revelation, 7 stars in Jesus right hand). Without Jupiters gravity, the rest of the planets would just float out into space, like lost sheep. It also protects the earth from asteroids and other things.

When Voyager arrived at Jupiter, its was measured to be 777 million kilometers from the sun, or 483 million miles (its has since move out further, over 800 km now). Those two numbers are not an accident and tie in directly with Christ in the Bible. Of course, there are a gazillion other numbers in Jupiter that are biblical, such as the 10 hour day, 12 year solar cycle, 16 major moons, its, its diameter (unmeasurable because it in constant flux) is about 144,000 thousand Km, or about 888 thousand miles. Jupiter is the only planet that has a center of mass with the Sun that lies outside the volume of the Sun, though by only 7% of the Sun's radius The axial tilt of Jupiter is 3.13° (7 again) Its density is 1.33 (7 again) Its radius is approximately 70 thousand km ........or 43 thousand m (7 again) This is also the same 7/4 ratio used in its distance from the sun The volume of Jupiter is approximately 1,440,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic meters. (impossible to measure exactly) Jupiter's mass is approximately 316 times that of earth. (this is another one that is hard to measure)

Numbers were the key to Arabic and Greek written languages. They are called lexicons and every number has specific meanings. For example 777 means "Christ Messiah). All the numbers point strait to Christ. Daniels prophecy of the coming messiah was 483 years after they begun rebuilding the wall in Israel.

It enters the womb of the Virgin next year and does its 42 week dance (perfect gestation period.) before exiting the birthing area, aligning perfect to fulfill Rev 12. She will be clothed in the sun, with the moon at her feet, with a crown of 12 stars on her head (thanks to 3 planets aligning perfectly with Leo the Lion), and she will be in labor. All this for one day only on 9-23-2017. Never happened before, and it will never happen again. BTW - 9-23-2017 is also the sabbath day, and the 3rd day of the new year on the biblical calender. Its during the FEAST OF TRUMPETS.

Truly a one time even in all of human history.

(07-01-2015 08:39 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  

(07-01-2015 07:37 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(06-30-2015 06:22 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  People don't realize how fortune it is Jupiter is so massive. It acts like the cosmic vacuum cleaner, cleaning up the debris from the Kuiper Belt Pluto and Neptune sling into the inner solar system.

Yep, Jupiter is pretty much Earths' "guardian angle".

Its meant to be a symbol of the Messiah. Jupiter was the star of Bethlehem (in a conjunction with Venus) back in 2 BC.

Jupiter is the shepard that holds the other 7 major planets together (7 churches of revelation, 7 stars in Jesus right hand). Without Jupiters gravity, the rest of the planets would just float out into space, like lost sheep. It also protects the earth from asteroids and other things.

When Voyager arrived at Jupiter, its was measured to be 777 million kilometers from the sun, or 483 million miles (its has since move out further, over 800 km now). Those two numbers are not an accident and tie in directly with Christ in the Bible. Of course, there are a gazillion other numbers in Jupiter that are biblical, such as the 10 hour day, 12 year solar cycle, 16 major moons, its, its diameter (unmeasurable because it in constant flux) is about 144,000 thousand Km, or about 888 thousand miles. Jupiter is the only planet that has a center of mass with the Sun that lies outside the volume of the Sun, though by only 7% of the Sun's radius The axial tilt of Jupiter is 3.13° (7 again) Its density is 1.33 (7 again) Its radius is approximately 70 thousand km ........or 43 thousand m (7 again) This is also the same 7/4 ratio used in its distance from the sun The volume of Jupiter is approximately 1,440,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic meters. (impossible to measure exactly) Jupiter's mass is approximately 316 times that of earth. (this is another one that is hard to measure)

Numbers were the key to Arabic and Greek written languages. They are called lexicons and every number has specific meanings. For example 777 means "Christ Messiah). All the numbers point strait to Christ. Daniels prophecy of the coming messiah was 483 years after they begun rebuilding the wall in Israel.

It enters the womb of the Virgin next year and does its 9 month dance before exiting the birthing area, aligning perfect to fulfill Rev 12. She will be clothed in the sun, with the moon at her feet, with a crown of 12 stars on her head (thanks to 3 planets aligning perfectly with Leo the Lion), and she will be in labor. All this for one day only on 9-23-2017. Never happened before, and it will never happen again. BTW - 9-23-2017 is also the sabbath day, and the 3rd day of the new year on the biblical calender. Its during the FEAST OF TRUMPETS.

Truly a one time even in all of human history.

I made it about a sentence in before laughter took over...

(07-01-2015 08:58 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:   I made it about a sentence in before laughter took over...

Your hatred and trolling of me is pretty epic, but I still love you and I will still appeal to Christ to save you.

Ask him for forgiveness.

You still have time.

WATCH: Time-Lapse Movie Shows Pluto and Charon Looming Larger as the New Horizons Spacecraft Speeds Ever Closer
By Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine | July 1, 2015 9:54 am


Time-lapse movie consisting of images acquired by the New Horizons spacecraft as it approached Pluto and Charon between May 28 and June 25, 2015. (Source: NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)

The New Horizons spacecraft has been sending home a steady stream of photos as it has closed in on Pluto. Now, the mission team has stitched a series of those images together to create the spectacular time-lapse animation above.

Pluto is in the center, spinning on its axis. Charon, the planet’s largest moon, is orbiting around it. As they loom ever larger in the frame, details on their surfaces become clearer. As described by NASA:

The images show Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, growing in apparent size as New Horizons closes in. As it rotates, Pluto displays a strongly contrasting surface dominated by a bright northern hemisphere, with a discontinuous band of darker material running along the equator. Charon has a dark polar region, and there are indications of brightness variations at lower latitudes.

The images in the time-lapse animation were acquired by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, or LORRI, camera, between May 28 and June 25 as the spacecraft raced closer and closer. In those 29 days, the spacecraft’s distance to Pluto decreased from about 35 million miles to 14 million miles.

Today, New Horizons is a bit more than 9 million miles away. It will make its closest approach — swooping just 7,750 miles above Pluto’s surface — at 7:49:57 EDT on July 14.

The mission team announced some news about Pluto yesterday: New Horizons has detected frozen methane on the planet’s surface. This was not surprising, since the presence of the odorless, colorless gas on Pluto was first detected by Earth-based astronomers back in 1976. Scientists suspect that Pluto’s methane came from the solar nebula out of which the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago.

Our own atmosphere also contains methane, at a concentration a bit below 1,850 parts per billion. Almost all of it came from organisms called methanogens, with less than 1 percent coming from non-biological sources.

By studying Pluto up close, scientists hope to learn more about the icy Kuiper Belt — the “third zone” of our solar system. We live in the inner zone, the realm of rocky planets: Earth, Venus, Mercury and Mars. The gas giants of the second zone are, of course, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

It turns out that there are far more ice dwarf planets in the third zone, the Kuiper Belt, than all the other kinds combined. These bodies are believed to be embryos that never completed their development into full planets. New Horizons will be the first spacecraft to visit one of these mysterious worlds. And the hope is that it will provide new insights into how the solar system formed.

(07-01-2015 08:39 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  

(07-01-2015 07:37 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(06-30-2015 06:22 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  People don't realize how fortune it is Jupiter is so massive. It acts like the cosmic vacuum cleaner, cleaning up the debris from the Kuiper Belt Pluto and Neptune sling into the inner solar system.

Yep, Jupiter is pretty much Earths' "guardian angle".

Its meant to be a symbol of the Messiah. Jupiter was the star of Bethlehem (in a conjunction with Venus) back in 2 BC.

Jupiter is the shepard that holds the other 7 major planets together (7 churches of revelation, 7 stars in Jesus right hand). Without Jupiters gravity, the rest of the planets would just float out into space, like lost sheep. It also protects the earth from asteroids and other things.

When Voyager arrived at Jupiter, its was measured to be 777 million kilometers from the sun, or 483 million miles (its has since move out further, over 800 km now). Those two numbers are not an accident and tie in directly with Christ in the Bible. Of course, there are a gazillion other numbers in Jupiter that are biblical, such as the 10 hour day, 12 year solar cycle, 16 major moons, its, its diameter (unmeasurable because it in constant flux) is about 144,000 thousand Km, or about 888 thousand miles. Jupiter is the only planet that has a center of mass with the Sun that lies outside the volume of the Sun, though by only 7% of the Sun's radius The axial tilt of Jupiter is 3.13° (7 again) Its density is 1.33 (7 again) Its radius is approximately 70 thousand km ........or 43 thousand m (7 again) This is also the same 7/4 ratio used in its distance from the sun The volume of Jupiter is approximately 1,440,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic meters. (impossible to measure exactly) Jupiter's mass is approximately 316 times that of earth. (this is another one that is hard to measure)

Numbers were the key to Arabic and Greek written languages. They are called lexicons and every number has specific meanings. For example 777 means "Christ Messiah). All the numbers point strait to Christ. Daniels prophecy of the coming messiah was 483 years after they begun rebuilding the wall in Israel.

It enters the womb of the Virgin next year and does its 42 week dance (perfect gestation period.) before exiting the birthing area, aligning perfect to fulfill Rev 12. She will be clothed in the sun, with the moon at her feet, with a crown of 12 stars on her head (thanks to 3 planets aligning perfectly with Leo the Lion), and she will be in labor. All this for one day only on 9-23-2017. Never happened before, and it will never happen again. BTW - 9-23-2017 is also the sabbath day, and the 3rd day of the new year on the biblical calender. Its during the FEAST OF TRUMPETS.

Truly a one time even in all of human history.

Ugh don't start this crap again. I came on here for updates on pluto, not a reminder of why astrology and biblical prophecy is ridiculous.

(07-01-2015 02:29 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  Ugh don't start this crap again. I came on here for updates on pluto, not a reminder of why astrology and biblical prophecy is ridiculous.

Get over it. No one is forcing you to ready anything I post.

The Bible explicitly tells us the stars and moon are there SPECIFICALLY for signs. Not signs for your personal life, but signs about Gods plans.

BTW- the Star of Bethlehem can be seen in the early evening right now and for the next several days,

http://www.examiner.com/article/historic...sand-years

http://www.examiner.com/article/star-of-...-this-week

What sets this conjunction apart from the norm is the fact that it will be viable over virtually the whole Earth for the first time in 2000 years.

Not coincidentally, might be the fact that in addition to this --on it's own--a remarkable celestial convergence, there is also the Blood Moon Tetrad of 2014-2015, and the solar eclipse of 2015, making this particular year one of the most active ever, in terms of historical and astronomical convergence

(07-01-2015 04:23 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  

(07-01-2015 02:29 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  Ugh don't start this crap again. I came on here for updates on pluto, not a reminder of why astrology and biblical prophecy is ridiculous.

Get over it. No one is forcing you to ready anything I post.

The Bible explicitly tells us the stars and moon are there SPECIFICALLY for signs. Not signs for your personal life, but signs about Gods plans.

BTW- the Star of Bethlehem can be seen in the early evening right now and for the next several days,

http://www.examiner.com/article/star-of-...-this-week

http://www.examiner.com/article/historic...sand-years

The stars aren't there for anything except existence, and certainly not because some bronze age book said so.

There is absolutely zero correlation between the stars / planets alignment or order, especially when you consider when that perspective changes the moment you leave earth. What is Orion to us, could be Richard Simmons in a mankini from another system. The end result is exactly the same.

(07-01-2015 04:23 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  Not coincidentally, might be the fact that in addition to this --on it's own--a remarkable celestial convergence, there is also the Blood Moon Tetrad of 2014-2015, and the solar eclipse of 2015, making this particular year one of the most active ever, in terms of historical and astronomical convergence

What do you mean Not Coincidentally? That's exactly what coincidence means... what else could that word possibly be intended to mean?

How come we never see any actual academic astronomers bring up the topic of convergence? The Answer: It is entirely irrelevant, with zero causation or correlation derived from it. It's merely interesting coincidence, that's it.