Keith’s note: Yesterday I posted a Twitter response to a tweet my New Horizons mission PI Alan Stern. This is what it originally looked like in case it is deleted. […]
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How NASA PIs Should Not Interact With Taxpayers
Keith’s note: Few people ever get a chance to fly something they helped to design in space. Even fewer people get to be a NASA mission Principal investigator. These missions […]
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About Those Decadal Surveys …
#math #physics #astronomy This looks very interesting. I do wonder if Pluto was still considered to be a planet when they started, and if it would have had a much […]
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Why Hasn't New Horizons Submitted Feature Names to IAU Yet?
.@alanstern says New Horizons team has not submitted Pluto nomenclature suggestions to IAU yet. "Informal names" to continue. #DPSEPSC — Alexandra Witze (@alexwitze) October 18, 2016 By stalling they get […]
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More New Horizons Nomenclature Food Fights
Pluto, we have a problem: Some geographical names may not fly on official maps, GeekWire “Some of the best-known names on Pluto ranging from the Sputnik plains to the Hillary […]
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New Horizons Victory Lap at Congress
Hearing on Pluto Flyby “Tuesday, July 28, 2015: The Science Committee’s NASA Authorization Act for FY16 and FY17 restored funds the Obama administration proposed cutting from planetary science budgets. This […]
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NASA Pluto Flyby Internet Statistics
“Potential reach and Number of Mentions of all social media posts(NASA & non-NASA) across 21 different social media platforms using one or more of the following keywords between July 13-17, […]
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New Horizons Has Phoned Home
New Horizons Phones Home Safe after Pluto Flyby “The call everyone was waiting for is in. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft phoned home just before 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday to tell […]
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Pluto's Unique Weirdness Grows
New Horizons’ Last Portrait of Pluto’s Puzzling Spots, NASA “Three billion miles from Earth and just two and a half million miles from Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has taken […]
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New Pluto Imagery Released
Latest Images of Pluto from New Horizons “These are the most recent high-resolution views of Pluto sent by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, including one showing the four mysterious dark spots […]