📄 sbpy: A Python module for small-body planetary astronomy
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Mommert, Michael et al. (2019) · The Journal of Open Source Software
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DOI: 10.21105/joss.01426
🔗 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019JOSS....4.1426M/abstract
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🚨 News from the Kuiper Belt
SwRI scientists find evidence of geothermal processes producing methane from within icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake
➡️ press release https://swri.org/press-release/swri-scientists-find-evidence-of-geothermal-activity-within-icy-dwarf-planets
➡️ Icarus paper https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2024.115999
#MakeMake #Eris #dwarfplanets #KuiperBelt #KBO #KuiperBeltObjects #TNO #TransNeptunianObjects #icyworlds #methane #volatiles #molecules #geochemistry #cosmochemistry #astrobiology #life #planetary #science #JWST #SolarSystem #SwRI #IcarusJournal #astronomy #astrodon
As students advance to higher and higher physics courses, they eventually learn that the simple Newtonian dynamics they learned about in early classes aren’t completely accurate models for understanding the universe. If things get too big or fast, they fall into the realm of relativity, or if they get too small, they get caught up … Continue reading "Could Modified Gravity Be the Answer to Planet 9?"
It's out. Papers and results from the New Horizons pass of the Kuiper Belt Object, Arrokoth. [ https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/details-pour-in-from-new-horizons-visit-to-a-kuiper-belt-object/ ]
Article summarises the findings. Links to the open access papers can be found at the end.
First results from the New Horizons flyby of 2014 MU69 are out, based on 10% of the data sent back by the probe so far.
#Astronomy #Space #NewHorizons #Exploration #2014MU69 #UltimaThule #KuiperBeltObjects
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/first-results-from-new-horizons-time-in-the-kuiper-belt/
First 'good' images of the New Horizons flyby of Ultima Thule are out. It's a 'dirty snowman'. :-)
#Space #Exploration #NewHorizons #KuiperBeltObjects
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20190102
The New Horizons spacecraft launched on January 19, 2006 – beginning its odyssey to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. New Horizons now continues on its unparalleled journey of exploration with the close flyby of a Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69 – nicknamed Ultima Thule – on January 1, 2019.
Here's a Press Kit for the New Horizons encounter with Ultima Thule. Via this Tweet by Alan Stern
#Exploration #Space #NewHorizons #UltimaThule #KuiperBeltObjects
https://twitter.com/AlanStern/status/1077979569276289024
PDF Press Kit: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Resources/Press-Kits/NewHorizonsPressKit__UT.pdf
In the lead-up to New Horizons close encounter with Ultima Thule, here's a Twitter thread by Alex Parker about the search for and discovery of Ultima Thule.
#Research #Space #Exploration #NewHorizons #UltimaThule #KuiperBeltObjects
It has begun!
"Alan Stern @AlanStern
BREAKING…Signal has just been received at mission control, New Horizons has successfully started its flyby program of stored commands and the exploration of Ultima Thule 4 billion miles away! THIS IS IT FOLKS, FLYBY HAS BEGUN! Go New Horizons!!"
#NASA #Science #Space #UltimaThule #NewHorizons #Exploration #KuiperBeltObjects
“BREAKING…Signal has just been received at mission control, New Horizons has successfully started its flyby program of stored commands and the exploration of Ultima Thule 4 billion miles away! THIS IS IT FOLKS, FLYBY HAS BEGUN! Go New Horizons!! #NASA #Science #SPACE#ULTIMAFLYBY”
It's a 'go' for closest approach to Ultima Thule by New Horizons. The Hazard team have concluded that there are 'no moons or rings in the path of New Horizons on its planned closest approach to Ultima'.
#NewHorizons #Space #Exploration #UltimaThule #KuiperBeltObjects
https://blogs.nasa.gov/pluto/2018/12/20/the-pis-perspective-on-final-approach-to-ultima/
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