NASA Spacecraft New Horizon Messages Home, Confirming Successful First Flyby of Pluto

[Bosonic]

Source: AP

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It's official: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has gotten humanity's first up-close look at Pluto,

The spacecraft sent word of its triumph Tuesday across 3 billion miles to scientists waiting breathlessly back home.

Confirmation of mission success came 13 hours after the actual flyby.

Early indications had been encouraging, and a cheering, flag-waving celebration swept over the mission operations center in Maryland at the time of closest approach Tuesday morning. But until New Horizons phoned home Tuesday night, there was no guarantee the spacecraft had buzzed the little, icy world.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/750ae529c6fa4e188e3c29b6f66f7012/ready-its-close-first-spacecraft-explore-pluto

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[RKP5637]

1. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Skittles]

2. USA! USA!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Fascinating! -- Well done! . nt

[gvstn]

4. I was just about to post but CNN just had a headline.

Thanks for letting us know this great news!

[SCVDem]

5. Clyde made it!

Way to go New Horizons team!

Now let's see if NASA can get the mission extended.

[onehandle]

6. Invade! Invade! Invade!

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This is the most fantastic space thing in a long, long time. Congratulations NASA!

Our best view of Pluto as of May:

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[MannyGoldstein]

23. That's amazing!

Thanks for the perspective.

[SoapBox]

7. It boggles the mind.

3 BILLION miles and 10 years...amazing.

[neverforget]

8. Fantastic! Go science! Go NASA!

[Gloria]

25. Let's fund NASA and get our "space shuttle" type of

program back!!!!!!

[tomm2thumbs]

9. Amazing that it will take 16 months to beam back all the data it collected

http://gizmodo.com/why-itll-take-new-horizons-16-months-to-send-us-this-we-1717769317

[lastlib]

33. they must use LastCenturyLink internet service too.......

good thing they started sending data BEFORE the probe lifted off................that'd just be getting here via LastCenturyLink.

[lastlib]

10. WELL DONE, New Horizons!!!!

you have made history, my little robotic friend!!

WELL DONE, NASA/JHU Team!

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This seems appropos for the occassion:

"Where is this place that we have found?
Nobody knows where we are bound
I long to hear, I need to see
'cause I've shed tears too many for me.

But I'm never gonna lose your precious gift
It will always be that way
'cause I know I'm gonna find my own peace of mind
Someday

On the wind, soaring free,
Spread your wings, I'm beginning to see
Out of mind, far from view,
Beyond the reach of a nightmare come true."

[Gloria]

27. Lovely to hear the Moody Blues...

from a time of real music with real words that meant something...

[roamer65]

11. Pluto looks awful planetary to me.

Can't wait to see the pics of Charon, it's moon.

Great day in human history today.

There is talk of extending the mission for flyby of a smaller Kuiper Belt Object. Hopefully it happens.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. Love the Google Doodle...

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--VuPmI_oE--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1340923051118355115.gif

[lastlib]

34. Awesome!!

Thanks for posting it!

[WillyT]

13. Woo Hoo !!! - HUGE K & R !!!

[ballabosh]

14. Is that an official photo

or a mock-up? I thought we weren't getting pics yet. This is very exciting.

[longship]

16. Transmitted just before the fly by.

There was a chance that New Horizons would not survive so they downloaded what they could just before entering Pluto environs. Once the encounter began, New Horizons would be too busy to communicate with Earth. The navigation during the flyby was all automatic, controlled by the pre-programmed onboard computer.

The pic in the OP was the last pic transmitted before the fly by, just in case.

Regards.

[Thespian2]

15. Makes us think...

we inhabit a smallish space ship traveling at 60,000+ mph...in a solar system that's outer rim is over 3 billion miles away...a fairly small solar system...

Congratulations to everyone who made this picture possible!!!

[JHB]

17. Earth from Saturn... and Pluto is 4x farther away:

[Thespian2]

19. WOW!!

Thanks for the picture!!

[jeff47]

39. Here's Earth and the moon as seen from Mars

[Aristus]

18. I never actually thought this day would come.

When I was a kid, reading about Pluto, and about how mind-bogglingly far away it is, I thought we'd never get a good look at it.

When the Voyager missions gave us close-up pics of Jupiter and Saturn, I remember being disappointed that they couldn't have programmed them to attempt a fly-by of Pluto, as well.

Finally, we have a chance to see...

And it's a planet! Screw the International Astronomical Association. Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Well done, NASA!

[Peace Patriot]

20. 3 pm ET tomorrow, new photos with 10x the resolution of this 'heart' image...

...taken just before the flyby.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

[Gloria]

21. Travel forever...godspeed!

Clyde's son was at Laurel for the news....ashes inboard..will be going to ouf Plutopalooza event in the 25th,

I am feeling so serene tonight, knowing that little disc with my name on it is leaving our solar system. I feel like I will live forever...

I am taking the liberty of posting the link to my article on this mission written several months ago, which includes a pic of the Clyde Tombaugh window in the Unitarian Church which he helped found here in Las Cruces....The gallery is named after him...

https://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/im-part-of-the-new-horizons-missions-final-approach-to-pluto-happenin-now/

[WillyT]

26. Thank You For That...

[Jack-o-Lantern]

22. It’s a planet!…Hell yes it’s a planet! It’s the largest mass in the Kuiper Belt.

It has moons, and it has an atmosphere. If it’s not a planet, then what the hell is a planet??

(The pictures are fantastic!)

[Gloria]

24. I completely agree...Luckily,

astrologers have never given up on Pluto...

It's discovery came at the dawn of the atomic age, it represents ...

"If any planetary energy represents an unconscious, instinctive, primordial, collective and transpersonal force, it is Pluto.

Much has been written about Pluto, probably because all that the planet symbolizes is so little understood or comprehended on the conscious, intellectual level.

snip

Pluto correlates with peak experience in which there is a kind of dying and rebirth. Afterwards the perceptions of reality are never again the same. Examples of these types of experiences that we all go through are having a love affair; having a child, a death experience (a close brush with one’s own death or death of someone close). War and other collective disasters are Plutonian experiences.

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Power and the temptation to power are Plutonian issues. Faust desired worldly power and sold his soul for it. Jesus resisted the temptation for worldly powers in favor of eternal, immortal power. Pluto/Hades (god of the underworld), raped Persephone, and later he made her queen; she became empowered, through the experience of the loss of innocence, or ignorance.

Pluto’s power is hypnotic and chthonic. It comes up from the underworld, from deep within the earth, within the being of the body. It is kundalini, the serpent power, in the Yogic tradition. Awaken this goddess kundalini at your own risk! It is the divine transforming fire from within which purifies and purges the physical, emotional, and mental bodies. If those vehicles are not prepared, it creates volcanic upheavals as it pushes through one’s being.

In fact, volcanoes are very symbolic of Plutonian energies. The serene mountain, like Fuji or Mt. Shasta, can erupt suddenly with great power and violence, spewing ash, and molten lava flows over all the surrounding area. The land is transformed! In time, a long time, the volcanic products break down into rich soil and new types of growth appear in place of what was there before, but in the mean time there is utter devastation.

How many of us have been burned by Pluto’s fires when transiting Pluto made a hard aspect to a natal planet? Afterwards, we are changed. And long afterwards when we can see the evolution that took place, we are grateful. We would not want to go back to who and what we were, even if that were possible, which, of course, it is not.

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Pluto is the dark, powerful, intense, regenerative life force. Raw life force does not recognize taboos. It is “gutsy” and rises up from beneath like a plant shoot pushing through the earth toward the sunlight. Issues around Pluto are power, eroticism, pain and transformation.

etc

http://astrologyclub.org/pluto-singleton/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. At a time of a scientific & engineering triumph, please no astrology non-science nonsense. nt

[Gloria]

35. Excuse me...ancient man looked at the skies and

had a connection we have LOST...

Do not judge without knowing anything about the history and archetypes of astrology.

[cemaphonic]

36. The history of astrology is pure superstitious hokum.

Astrology probably was of great value to ancient primitive peoples, since careful observation of the stars and the sun was vital in planning things like harvests and nomadic migrations. And in a illiterate, oral culture, having a bunch of colorful songs and legends about the stars helped them remember and transmit their learning.

Now we know better.

Plus, how could Pluto possibly be connected to ancient traditions of astrology? It was discovered in the 20th century.

[OxQQme]

37. Pluto was 'known' thousands of years prior to the 20th century.

Many find Sitchin to be WOO, but he didn't make this clay depiction of a Sun with it's orbiting planets.
The pictograph depicts eleven bodies. One being our moon, one as Niburu.
The ancient records also had apparent fly-by descriptions of each, along with their particular orbits around our sun.



The Ancient Ones also had delineated this planet into the latitudes and longitudes.

More woo?

I think not.

Seventh rock in from 'out there' is us.

[cemaphonic]

38. How do the Templars figure into all of this?

and the Illuminati...

Pluto is not visible to the naked eye, nor with pre-20th century astronomic technology. Nobody knew of its existence until the 1930s.

[jeff47]

40. Nope. Eris has more mass. Pluto is larger in diameter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt#Largest_KBOs

Eris is more dense than Pluto, so it has more mass while having a smaller diameter

Eris and Haumea also have moons. AFAIK, we don't know yet if Eris has an atmosphere or not.

[calimary]

28. This is SOOOOO cool!!!

Enjoy:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/14/8962367/pluto-disney-whoa-dude-what

[Gloria]

29. It IS cool!!!!!

You know what else is cool? The MOON RABBIT...from folklore...look at a bright full moon, you will see the rabbit!

When I was doing library work in the grades, I taught fables and discussed the Moon Rabbit...I had a kid come back later and told me he and his father had seen the rabbit! What a great feeling that was!

[mindwalker_i]

32. Actually, it's down-right friggin' cold!

Pluto's average temperature is, what, about 20 kelvins? We could have room-temperature superconductors on there.

[jeff47]

41. 33K-55K

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

[Gloria]

30. OK, I have to do this, a shameless thing...this is the certificate I got when I put my name on NH

10 years ago!!!

From my blog post ...link in another post on this thread...

"Recently, I rediscovered a lost printout that I promptly restored to a prominent place in my office.

This single piece of paper reads:

NEW HORIZONS MISSION

Shedding Light on Frontier Worlds

Participation Certificate

Presented to

***********My Name************

On August 30, 2005

Thank you for joining the first mission to the last planet! A compact

disc bearing your name will be included on the New Horizons spacecraft,

set for the first voyage to a new class of planets on the solar system’s

farthest frontier.

Come with us as we complete the reconnaissance of the solar system and unlock

the secrets of Pluto, its moon, Charon, and the Kuiper Belt.

Certificate No. 277229"


I'm sorry, I just can't get over this!! I have major Pluto aspects going on for over a year, as I approach 65. I'm just purging stuff, people and feeling more and and more free....