New Horizons Mission to Pluto
Discussion
MartG said:
Gandahar said:
My theory is that it is refrozen ice, melted by the energy of impact and now holding the two parts togetherIt seems that it isn't as round as it appears - Scott Manley vid explaining the latest info
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD8eVMXfsK4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD8eVMXfsK4
More hires pics released http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.p...
ash73 said:
Been watching reruns of Space 1999 and Ultima Thule was a planet in the episode Death's Other Dominion. I wonder if someone on the New Horizons team is a fan?
Ha, I think I've seen that. With Brian Blessed no less! The name was put forward by 40 people in a public competition. (No doubt to avoid "Snowy Mc Snowmanface" getting picked) they narrowed their shortlist of 29 names to this one.
Beati Dogu said:
ash73 said:
Been watching reruns of Space 1999 and Ultima Thule was a planet in the episode Death's Other Dominion. I wonder if someone on the New Horizons team is a fan?
Ha, I think I've seen that. With Brian Blessed no less! The name was put forward by 40 people in a public competition. (No doubt to avoid "Snowy Mc Snowmanface" getting picked) they narrowed their shortlist of 29 names to this one.
Let’s hope they were 1999 fans
https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/03/nasa-refuses-change...
Thule Society identified Ultima Thule as a lost ancient landmass in the extreme north, near Greenland or Iceland,[15] said by Nazi mystics to be the capital of ancient Hyperborea.
Edit but let’s not derail this excellent thread. No point in debating those idiots, back to space.
I can’t see a thread on the Japanese hayabusa lander?
Edited by Pesty on Saturday 9th March 00:42
Pesty said:
There is aledgedly another reason that name was picked. It has other rather nasty connotations .i just found out googling for that 1999 episode
Let’s hope they were 1999 fans
https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/03/nasa-refuses-change...
Seriously? This isn't an early April Fool? These people worry about names given to asteroids?Let’s hope they were 1999 fans
https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/03/nasa-refuses-change...
Do the people taking that article seriously feel the same way about VW Beetles (Nazi design), Audi (Nazi funded), Mercedes Benz (Nazi funded), Autobahns (Nazi project), the title of "Chancellor" for head of state (Hitler's idea), Atlantis (Nazi theories here too), Egypt (again), Nepal (again), Long horned cows (yes, really) and anything developed earlier than it would otherwise have been due to using V2 tech to jump start the space programme which would make Sat-Nav and weather satellites a bit Nazi.
cymtriks said:
Seriously? This isn't an early April Fool? These people worry about names given to asteroids?
Do the people taking that article seriously feel the same way about VW Beetles (Nazi design), Audi (Nazi funded), Mercedes Benz (Nazi funded), Autobahns (Nazi project), the title of "Chancellor" for head of state (Hitler's idea), Atlantis (Nazi theories here too), Egypt (again), Nepal (again), Long horned cows (yes, really) and anything developed earlier than it would otherwise have been due to using V2 tech to jump start the space programme which would make Sat-Nav and weather satellites a bit Nazi.
Otto Von Bismark was Chancellor of German 70 years before Adolf Hitler.Do the people taking that article seriously feel the same way about VW Beetles (Nazi design), Audi (Nazi funded), Mercedes Benz (Nazi funded), Autobahns (Nazi project), the title of "Chancellor" for head of state (Hitler's idea), Atlantis (Nazi theories here too), Egypt (again), Nepal (again), Long horned cows (yes, really) and anything developed earlier than it would otherwise have been due to using V2 tech to jump start the space programme which would make Sat-Nav and weather satellites a bit Nazi.
Rocket technology was being developed in many countries besides Germany. Yes, they were more advanced with booster technology in the 1940s but eventually other countries would have got to the same level with or without German rocket technology. Don't give them credit for everything.
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