http://www.plutotoday.com/ Pluto Today en-us Thu, 17 May 2012 12:30:01 PST kcowing@spaceref.com mkboucher@spaceref.com Copyright 2006, SpaceRef Interactive Inc. http://images.spaceref.com/pluto.today.sm.jpg http://www.plutotoday.com/ 112 59 Pluto Today - a service of SpaceRef http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=40797 New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now more than 23 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is. Thu, 10 May 2012 16:05:18 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=39952 Few spacecraft travel 10 astronomical units during their entire mission. But with New Horizons already logging more than twice that distance on its way to Pluto, coming to within 10 AU of its main target is akin to entering the home stretch. Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:28:58 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=39951 On Jan. 21, the operations team successfully tested the New Horizons Radio Science Experiment, taking advantage of an Earth-moon-spacecraft alignment to simulate atmospheric measurements "REX" will make at Pluto in 2015. Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:28:23 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=35924 New Horizons' flight to explore the Pluto system in July 2015 will be a historic accomplishment for the U.S. space program, for planetary science, and indeed for all humankind. Wed, 1 Feb 2012 21:56:37 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=39610 Today, the team fulfilling that wish mourns Patsy Tombaugh, who died Jan. 12 in Las Cruces, N.M. She was 99. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:34:40 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=35589 The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph aboard Hubble has discovered a strong ultraviolet-wavelength absorber on Pluto's surface, providing new evidence that points to the possibility of complex hydrocarbon and/or nitrile molecules lying on the surface Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:26:55 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=39013 New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now almost two times as far from the Sun as the Earth is, and approaching six years into its 9.5-year journey to the Pluto system. Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:37:12 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=35052 Astronomers have accurately measured the diameter of the faraway dwarf planet Eris for the first time by catching it as it passed in front of a faint star. Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:17:55 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=38284 At this moment one of the fastest spacecraft ever launched -New Horizons - is hurtling at nearly one million miles per day. Launched in 2006, it has been in flight longer than some missions last, and still has four more years of travel to go. Mon, 5 Sep 2011 20:24:38 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=38081 In June and July, members of the New Horizons science team, using the Hubble Space Telescope, discovered and confirmed that Pluto has a fourth moon! Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:10:06 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=33967 A team from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville has developed the website IceHunters which challenges the public to discover potential destinations for a NASA mission at the very edge of the solar system set to happen around 2015. Wed, 29 Jun 2011 2:24:26 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=33966 A Williams College team of astronomers, headed by Bryce Babcock and Jay Pasachoff, have been in Hawaii, near Honolulu, to observe a rare double-double event about Pluto. Wed, 29 Jun 2011 2:23:09 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=35138 On Sunday, Oct. 17, at 3:24 Universal Time, we passed the halfway mark in the number of days from launch to Pluto encounter - the last of our halfway milestones en route to Pluto! From here, we have fewer days in front of us than behind us. Tue, 19 Oct 2010 4:11:01 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=31816 A team of scientists has revealed that the frozen surface of Eris, the largest-known dwarf planet orbiting the Sun, is predominantly covered in nitrogen ice, similar to the surface of Pluto. Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:01:53 http://www.plutotoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=31327 In early 2007 New Horizons flew through the Jupiter system snapping stunning, close-up images of Jupiter and its largest moons. Fast forward to 2010 and New Horizons has given us another glimpse of old friend Jupiter. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:34:18