November 2006 Top Stories
»» Making Old Horizons New
[Wednesday, November 1, 2006] "Up on New Horizons, we've completed another long series of important milestones as we prepare our spacecraft and instrument payload for the long journey ahead."
»» University of Maryland Proposal for Deep Impact Extended Mission Clears Major Hurdle
[Wednesday, November 1, 2006] A University of Maryland proposal to send the Deep Impact spacecraft on an extended mission to get a close-up look at Comet Boethin has cleared the biggest step in a two-step NASA approval process.
»» IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature: No More Provisional Names!
[Thursday, November 23, 2006] There has been an important change in the approval process for planetary feature names: as soon as the WGPSN has successfully reviewed a name, it is considered approved and can be used in publications.
»» New Horizons Gets First Glimpse of Pluto
[Tuesday, November 28, 2006] New Horizons, Not Quite to Jupiter, Makes First Pluto Sighting The New Horizons team got a faint glimpse of the mission's distant, main planetary target when one of the spacecraft's telescopic cameras spotted Pluto for the first time.
