Great News: New Horizons to "stay the course" at Pluto

The Planetary Society (blog) | Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:54:12 -0700

Dust has been a worry for New Horizons ever since a team led by Mark Showalter discovered Pluto's fourth moon two years ago. Further intense searches of the Pluto system yielded the announcement of a fifth moon and the intensification of the worry a ...

Planning Accelerates For Pluto Encounter

Space Daily | Tue, 21 May 2013 21:08:29 -0700

+ The Pluto system appears to be far safer than early fears and initial calculations indicated when the new moons began popping up. In fact, the best current models predict a 0.3% (1-in-300) chance of a mission-ending impact near closest approach on ...

3-D Map Of Universe Shows Positions Of Known Galaxies In Unprecedented ...

Huffington Post | Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:42:40 -0700

In July, NASA said that its Hubble Space Telescope <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/20/new-pluto-moon-hubble-space-telescope_n_904578.html" target="_hplink">discovered an eight to 21-mile-wide moon</a> circling the dwarf planet.

House GOP: Don't grab an asteroid — let's put bases on moon and Mars

NBCNews.com | Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:08:42 -0700

One of the goals would be "to develop a sustained human presence on the moon and Mars," according to the draft, which is expected to come under discussion at a House Science space subcommittee hearing on Wednesday. NBC News received a copy of ...

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