Flying over Pluto

Pluto was discovered only twenty years ago in the early 1950s when I was first fascinated by astronomy. However, except for its orbital period (248 years), the average distance from the sun (39.4 astronomical units or about 6 billion miles), and the 17 ° inclination to the ecliptic (orbital plane of the earth) we I do not know at all. It is a very dark white spot moving slowly in the black sky of the universe. Pluto's strength is only 14.2, it requires a telescope of at least 10 inches to see

On July 14, 2015 NASA 's New Horizon' s spacecraft pulled Pluto and scanned for dwarfs with unprecedented detail. Using the time-of-flight data, the New York Times created a 7-minute virtual reality movie. Flying over the steep surface of Pluto, standing in the ice-like al-Idrisi mountain landing on a frozen Elliott crater

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft became the first spaceship of Pluto. During a short flight, New Horizonso conducted detailed measurements and observations of Pluto and its satellites. In September 2016, an astronomer, Charon's arctic red-brown cap is composed of tritium, an organic polymer, which is a constituent of life, produced by methane, nitrogen, and other gases released from Pluto's atmosphere We announced it will be done. Miles transferred to orbiting satellites)

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizo ​​ns / main /) is expected to arrive at Pluto at a flight distance of approximately 10,000 kilometers. Due to the distance between Earth and Pluto, it will allow the new horizon to reach its destination for more than nine years. Even the most powerful telescope, when it arrives, you can shoot better images than the Earth. In all discussions on classification, after all, the name is just a name. Except for other names, the dwarf runs gently like a butcher Shakespeare. Classification is a useful tool for understanding nature and its function, but classification can have natural phenomena that ignore these classifications at all times, no matter how carefully you define the classification. The important thing is not what we are calling it, but what new insight it provides about the universe.