"NASA's #NewHorizons mission faces an uncertain future" op-ed by @Chryseplanatia in @SpaceDotCom - #NASA budget cuts threaten NH mission. Studying #KuiperBelt is more than flybys. With it we have a telescope🔭 near the KBOs. https://www.space.com/nasa-new-horizons-budget-uncertainty #astronomy #planetary #science

#BBC 📆 2021 In 📆 1992, two #astronomers 🔭 discovered the #KuiperBelt. In 📆 2016, two professors of #PlanetaryScience at #Caltech proposed a massive #planet 🪐, between five and 10 times the size of Earth 🌏. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210216-the-massive-planet-scientists-cant-find

"At the moment the only game in town for finding #PlanetNine is the Subaru Telescope 🔭" 🗺️ https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Subaru+Telescope&layer=Esri+Satellite

The Vera Rubin #Observatory 🔭 will start searching for long period #comets ☄️ coming from the #OortCloud when it is completed 📆 2023. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210618-the-solar-systems-icy-shell-contaminated-by-other-stars 🗺️ https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Vera+Rubin+Observatory&layer=Esri+Satellite

#OortCloud #comet up to 230 miles wide, traveling 1 #AU per year passing by in 📆 2031 “#Comets ☄️are like #cats, you never know what they’re going to do.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/giant-comet-oort-cloud-will-pass-sun-2031-180978048

Pictures : :cc_zero: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA17046_-_Voyager_1_Goes_Interstellar.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA-PathsOfSpaceProbesThroughTheKuiperBelt-20190105.jpg, Halley's #comet :ccby: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halley%27s_Comet_animation.gif

The journey to #Pluto, the farthest world ever explored - Alan Stern

As of 1989, mankind had successfully sent craft to every known #planet in the solar system except one: Pluto. Located in an mysterious region called the #KuiperBelt, Pluto is a scientific goldmine, and could hold clues to the formation of our solar system. Alan Stern explains how #NASA's #NewHorizons mission is going to allow us to see Pluto for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyUnzfMh-zA

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-05-kuiper-belt-puzzle.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2023-05-kuiper-belt-puzzle.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1663979922375753728#m

Researchers solve colorful #KuiperBelt puzzle @ScienceAdvances https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg6936 https://phys.org/news/2023-05-kuiper-belt-puzzle.html

"There May Be A Second Kuiper Belt, And New Horizons Is Headed There" by @spaceref (mirror bot) - Diagram (by Simon Porter @simonbp ) shows @NASANewHorizons in a gap in the #KuiperBelt with potentially more objects to explore ahead https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/second-kuiper-belt-new-horizons-headed/ #astronomy #space

There May Be A Second Kuiper Belt, And New Horizons Is Headed There

https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/second-kuiper-belt-new-horizons-headed/

#KuiperBelt #NewHorizons

Change of Plans for New Horizons Sparks Debate https://hackaday.com/2023/05/17/change-of-plans-for-new-horizons-sparks-debate/ #NewHorizons #KuiperBelt #deepspace #Space #Pluto

Change of Plans for New Horizons Sparks Debate - In 2015 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft provided humanity with the first up-close v... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/17/change-of-plans-for-new-horizons-sparks-debate/ #newhorizons #kuiperbelt #deepspace #space #pluto

The farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft: Arrokoth (the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69) - NASA's New Horizons 2019

Full size video and more info: https://flic.kr/p/2oum62N

Mission: NASA New Horizons
Instrument: Lorri
Start time: 2019-01-01T05:26:50.103
Stop Time: 2019-01-01T05:26:58.128

Product IDs:
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#Space #Spacetodon #Astrodon #Solarocks #Astronomy #Arrokoth #KuiperBelt
Credit:
NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/AndreaLuck

The farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft: Arrokoth (the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69) - NASA's New Horizons 2019

Full size video and more info: https://flic.kr/p/2oum62N

Mission: NASA New Horizons
Instrument: Lorri
Start time: 2019-01-01T05:26:50.103
Stop Time: 2019-01-01T05:26:58.128

Product IDs:
lor_0408626328_0x636_eng
>>>>9 Images >>>>
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#Space #Spacetodon #Astrodon #Solarocks #Astronomy #Arrokoth #KuiperBelt
Credit:
NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/AndreaLuck

Regarding the #NewHorizons mission in the #KuiperBelt some more #LPSC2023-related links:

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1263.pdf On the Properties and Origin of Kuiper Belt Object #Arrokoth’s Large Mounds

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1286.pdf Is #TruePolarWander Recorded in #Pluto’s Ancient Geology?

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1787.pdf How Widespread are the Bladed Terrains on Pluto?

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1549.pdf Exploring #IceGiants at High Phase with New Horizons

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20230314
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/03/14/pluto-team-updates-science-from-the-solar-systems-edge/
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2023/03/15/the-latest-from-new-horizons/

Located at the edge of the solar system the #KuiperBelt is home to a fascinating host of icy objects from dwarf planets to #space “snowmen.” I spoke to @CampionUR astronomer Samatha Lawler about this fascinating region of #space #astronomy #comets
https://www.space.com/16144-kuiper-belt-objects.html

Planetary scientists are puzzled by the presence of a ring around a distant #KuiperBelt object. Scientists reported this week the discovery of the ring around #Quaoar, an object a little less than half the diameter of #Pluto orbiting beyond #Neptune. The ring appears to be uneven, varying in width from a few kilometers to a few hundred kilometers.

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#nuclear #propulsion can get us to Mars in weeks instead of months.

I say **** that! Send a telescope 550AU into the Kuiper Belt instead, and use the sun as a gravitational lens.

With it, we could image far-away #exoplanets down to a 1-kilometer resolution.

This is what we want to do, if we want to look for life out there in the #universe. Colonising Mars is actually much harder!

#kuiperbelt #astronomy

A rare moment of calm between the bluster and downpour outside.

#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #cats #RemiAndKuiper #CAwx #rain #storm #hug #cute #cuddles #spots #astronomy #science #KuiperBelt

Lit by distant Sol,

A world of ice and quiet,

A perfect winter.

#KuiperBelt #ConceptArt #3DArt #IndieDev #Haiku

#newhorizons #awakening from #hibernation starts its second extended #mission #kuiperbelt #space #exploration
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-pluto-spacecraft-begins-new-mission-at-the-solar-systems-edge/

Why is Pluto now classified as a dwarf planet? What exactly is a dwarf planet? What is the Kuiper Belt, and Oort cloud? Free resource with great visuals here :-)

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/astronomy/planets/planets-dwarf-planets/

@edutooters
@science
@scienceteachers
#science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers #scienceteachers #astronomy #dwarfplanet #dwarfplanets #oortcloud #kuiperbelt

#astronomy #asteroids #KuiperBelt #KBOs An article published in "The Planetary Science Journal" reports a study on some Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) that are part of a particular group of which new observations revealed a blue color and a binary nature.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2021/09/09/blue-asteroids-may-have-been-pushed-into-the-kuiper-belt-by-neptune/

#astronomy #KuiperBelt A team of astronomers announced that they obtained observations confirming that 2018 AG37, nicknamed #Farfarout, is the most distant object from the Sun within the solar system.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2021/02/13/a-confirmation-that-2018-ag37-nicknamed-farfarout-is-the-object-farthest-from-the-sun-within-the-solar-system/